Very Now at London College of Communication

Co-curated with Max Houghton to coincide with the college’s Festival of Art and Journalism, Very Now explores the intersection of these two fields with works from an array of artists who blend the disseminative and conceptual strategies of art with the timeliness and real world concerns of journalism.

Very Now includes work by Jeremy Deller, Edmund Clark, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips, Laura El-Tantawy, David Birkin, and Lewis Bush. Displayed alongside pieces by these artists and photographers are projects by groups of UAL students who worked reactively to produce new work on the theme of art and journalism. These projects included a reactive photograph which dynamically responds to viewer comments, an animation about insect drones and a large scale display of slides from the Snowden archive of leaked NSA documents.