No Boundaries 2014 was heralded as an ‘open symposium on the role of culture in 21st century society accessible for established cultural leaders and for those who are discovering their leadership role’. Artists were also able to attend. The symposium also took place over two cities: Bristol and York. We were promised a wide variety…Read more No Boundaries – no fringe
Month: February 2014
Five Interventions for No Boundaries
Sound conference advice for all artsy shindigs in the mould of #nb2014 (No Boundaries)…
Today is the beginning of the No Boundaries conference, which I was supposed to attend. Unfortunately I am really sick so will not be able to make it. Instead I encourage you to find ways in which to perform these small acts of intervention on my behalf.
1. At a moment to be decided entirely by you, step outside of the conference and repeat the last question you heard to a passing stranger.
2. Find a quiet quiet corner and carefully but determinedly begin to push against one of the building’s outer walls. Continue to do so until someone asks you what you are doing.
3. Whenever someone onstage mentions participation, shout loudly “Participation! Of course, how could I have been so stupid?!” and run out of the room.
4. Whenever someone onstage mentions funding, think for no reason at all about seaside piers and arcades that smell of old…
View original post 41 more words
Call out for craftivists…visible mending exhibition…in a shed!
Crafts call out for visible mending show in Spalding shed? Answers on local postcard to dot to dot member Carol Parker…
It seems Spring is waiting to pounce so I’ll soon be moving to my warm weather studio on Allotment 17b. I’m planning to also use the shed as a gallery space and I’d like to put a call out to all craftivists to send in a piece of work….knitting, crochet, cross stitch, embroidery, lacework…whatever is currently occupying your idle hands!
My shed has recently been broken into; I had to patch it up a bit and replaced the broken windows with old chicken wire that I had in my stock of ‘materials I will need at some point’. So it’s repaired, but the scars are visible. It’s been darned!
So an obvious theme for the exhibition is visible mending. Please create your work on a local postcard, so we know where you’re from and be sure to leave space for the address to be clearly read…
View original post 99 more words
It’s the end of the world as we know it
Very poignant post by François Matarasso as No Boundaries conference approaches...
The Morris Justice Project, South Bronx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mliuISC2hJk#t=15 An amazing example of participatory action research done well. Engaged people voicing real concerns about their neighbourhood using data they collected. This video is also a great example of using visual arts to produce powerful public interventions via the outdoor projection vehicle called The Illuminator. Lots UK could learn here. The project is part…Read more The Morris Justice Project, South Bronx
CAN PARTICIPATORY ART SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL CHANGE?
Here's a short version of the presentation I gave at BALTIC 39 recently about my doctoral research project following project approval... Any comments more than welcome.
Here we go round the mulberry bush
A repetitive, cyclical dance around a plant upon which mulberries don’t really grow whilst mimicking of everyday actions and chanting ‘This is the way...’ and a response to a blog post on the #culturalvalue initiative website by Daniel Allington entitled Intrinsically cultural value: a sociological perspective. Walter Crane, Here we go round the mulberry bush,…Read more Here we go round the mulberry bush
colouring in culture 