(1961 - )
Central questions in Alan Kane’s practice, have always revolved around what constitutes a work of art, and what role does the artist play in its production.
In the early 1990s Alan Kane abandoned painting to explore Fluxus and Situationist strategies for making art. This resulted in a series of one-off events and walking tours for a variety of spaces, including Stringfellows nightclub and the New Art Gallery, Walsall. In these projects Kane played with the idea of the artist as a producer and author of objects. If Alan Kane was to make tangible art works during this period, then these were generally snapped photographs of friends, nights out, and oddities that caught his eye. These images had a throwaway quality to them and were presented casually, almost to deny them any weight.
