Adam Scrivener
The English artist and writer Adam Scrivener received his Master of Art (History and Theory of Modern Art) from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1994. In 1995, he co-founded the artist group, Inventory, who have participated in group and solo exhibitions at numerous venues internationally including The Approach, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Art Gallery, ICA (London), Portikus, Hamburg Kunstverein, and White Columns (NY). To date, they have published 14 issues of their experimental journal, titled “Inventory”. Their work is included in the collections of Tate Modern and Centre Pompidou and they have been written about extensively in a variety of contemporary art magazines from Artforum to Art Monthly.
In 2001, Inventory received the Year of the Artist Award from the Arts Council of Great Britain, and in 2003 they were short-listed for the Becks Futures Award. Scrivener was an artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2003-04, and has been a visiting lecturer at numerous universities including the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths College, and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse. The “City as Will and Idea” is Adam Scrivener’s first feature-length documentary film.