Time to drop innovation? Socially engaged art is not The Latest Thing…

Elizabeth Grady began a discussion on the ‘innovative’ socially engaged network a blade of grass entitled The Latest Thing. I contributed via Twitter then wrote Is socially engaged art ‘innovative’? (A word game with scrapheap prizes) in response to what I felt was a move towards attempting to position socially engaged art as ‘innovative’. Grady…Read more Time to drop innovation? Socially engaged art is not The Latest Thing…

Time to drop innovation? Socially engaged art is not The Latest Thing…

Elizabeth Grady began a discussion on the ‘innovative’ socially engaged network a blade of grass entitled The Latest Thing. I contributed via Twitter then wrote Is socially engaged art ‘innovative’? (A word game with scrapheap prizes) in response to what I felt was a move towards attempting to position socially engaged art as ‘innovative’. Grady…Read more Time to drop innovation? Socially engaged art is not The Latest Thing…

My contribution to article about socially engaged art for Museums Journal, October 2014

I’m very pleased to have been included in an article by Simon Stephens in October’s edition of Museums Journal entitled People Power.  It’s an interesting piece with a range of differing perspectives about social practice. Click the image above or here to read the PDF.

THE STATUS QUO WILL NO LONGER DO – three provocations at Arts Council England national office

What a week.  A great week.  A deeply challenging week.  A week which saw me invited to Arts Council England’s HQ in Bloomsbury Street, London, thanks to CidaCo and Anamaria Wills in particular, to present a resilience lab to almost thirty people from arts organisations from Birmingham and South East London.  I co-presented the afternoon…Read more THE STATUS QUO WILL NO LONGER DO – three provocations at Arts Council England national office

THE STATUS QUO WILL NO LONGER DO – three provocations at Arts Council England national office

What a week.  A great week.  A deeply challenging week.  A week which saw me invited to Arts Council England’s HQ in Bloomsbury Street, London, thanks to CidaCo and Anamaria Wills in particular, to present a resilience lab to almost thirty people from arts organisations from Birmingham and South East London.  I co-presented the afternoon…Read more THE STATUS QUO WILL NO LONGER DO – three provocations at Arts Council England national office

A bonfire of the vanities: is resilience & sustainability in the arts simply adding new fuel to old fires?

This is a retitled reblog of a piece I first posted on May 24, 2013 I'm republishing it now because it is something I've developed significantly in my practice and academic studies and because I'm presenting a lab day at Arts Council England next week and this will form part of one of my provocations...…Read more A bonfire of the vanities: is resilience & sustainability in the arts simply adding new fuel to old fires?