I was invited to attend Storming the Citadels? Changing attitudes and frameworks to arts practices and research in community settings by Sophie Hope. As an admirer of Sophie’s research and a believer in many of the demands made in Owen Kelly’s classic 1984 text Community, Art and the State: Storming the Citadels, I travelled to…Read more Arise street-crack Buddleias–why socially engaged artists must attempt to storm the citadels
Month: July 2015
Arise street-crack Buddleias–why socially engaged artists must attempt to storm the citadels
I was invited to attend Storming the Citadels? Changing attitudes and frameworks to arts practices and research in community settings by Sophie Hope. As an admirer of Sophie’s research and a believer in many of the demands made in Owen Kelly’s classic 1984 text Community, Art and the State: Storming the Citadels, I travelled to…Read more Arise street-crack Buddleias–why socially engaged artists must attempt to storm the citadels
Do we need ‘another name’ for socially engaged art? Erm, No…
Eavesdropping, Aidan Moesby, Vinyl wall text, 2014 I’m intensely interested in perceptions of socially engaged art: past, present and future practice and theory. My research and practice is about exploring the roots of this practice, its place in societies, its ability to open up potential spaces on a myriad of levels from social to personal,…Read more Do we need ‘another name’ for socially engaged art? Erm, No…
Do we need ‘another name’ for socially engaged art? Erm, No…
Eavesdropping, Aidan Moesby, Vinyl wall text, 2014 I’m intensely interested in perceptions of socially engaged art: past, present and future practice and theory. My research and practice is about exploring the roots of this practice, its place in societies, its ability to open up potential spaces on a myriad of levels from social to personal,…Read more Do we need ‘another name’ for socially engaged art? Erm, No…
THE NATIONAL FUNDING SCHEME IS A SCANDAL. A ‘SCHEME’ IN THE MOST NEGATIVE SENSE. A SCAM.
Cor! What a Bargain! Michael Landy, 1992 Liz Hill’s revelations about the National Funding Scheme in Arts Professional this week are undoubtedly shocking. How has the art world reacted to the exposé? Almost blanket silence. Any interest from the national press? Nope. Not yet. This silence typifies an arts establishment that happily trumpets any ‘positive’…Read more THE NATIONAL FUNDING SCHEME IS A SCANDAL. A ‘SCHEME’ IN THE MOST NEGATIVE SENSE. A SCAM.
THE NATIONAL FUNDING SCHEME IS A SCANDAL. A ‘SCHEME’ IN THE MOST NEGATIVE SENSE. A SCAM.
Cor! What a Bargain! Michael Landy, 1992 Liz Hill’s revelations about the National Funding Scheme in Arts Professional this week are undoubtedly shocking. How has the art world reacted to the exposé? Almost blanket silence. Any interest from the national press? Nope. Not yet. This silence typifies an arts establishment that happily trumpets any ‘positive’…Read more THE NATIONAL FUNDING SCHEME IS A SCANDAL. A ‘SCHEME’ IN THE MOST NEGATIVE SENSE. A SCAM.
ARTS & CULTURAL WORKERS–STRUGGLE NOW AGAINST CREEPING NEOLIBERALISM
The art world’s such a fickle place. Buzzword after buzzword follows business metaphor upon business metaphor. Right now, the UK arts and cultural world is apparently ‘waking up’ to inequality. The art world’s unequal THEY say. We need diversity THEY say. Academics wonder if this inequity is a class, race, gender thing. Politicians and policy…Read more ARTS & CULTURAL WORKERS–STRUGGLE NOW AGAINST CREEPING NEOLIBERALISM
ARTS & CULTURAL WORKERS–STRUGGLE NOW AGAINST CREEPING NEOLIBERALISM
The art world’s such a fickle place. Buzzword after buzzword follows business metaphor upon business metaphor. Right now, the UK arts and cultural world is apparently ‘waking up’ to inequality. The art world’s unequal THEY say. We need diversity THEY say. Academics wonder if this inequity is a class, race, gender thing. Politicians and policy…Read more ARTS & CULTURAL WORKERS–STRUGGLE NOW AGAINST CREEPING NEOLIBERALISM
Art and (In)equality–a film of my provocation @CREATEglos event on 1st June 2015
I’ve already blogged about the event a little bit and shared my presentation but, as inequality within arts and culture has risen in prominence in the past few days, I thought I would share the film made by CREATEgloucestershire in which I “perform” my provocation. You can read more about Dr Dave O’Brien’s take on…Read more Art and (In)equality–a film of my provocation @CREATEglos event on 1st June 2015
Art and (In)equality–a film of my provocation @CREATEglos event on 1st June 2015
I’ve already blogged about the event a little bit and shared my presentation but, as inequality within arts and culture has risen in prominence in the past few days, I thought I would share the film made by CREATEgloucestershire in which I “perform” my provocation. You can read more about Dr Dave O’Brien’s take on…Read more Art and (In)equality–a film of my provocation @CREATEglos event on 1st June 2015
Socially engaged art–marginal practices & critical utopias
I delivered this talk about my research to the Northumbria - Sunderland AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training Student Conference on the 1st July 2015 at The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. It’s about negating a negation – negative dialectics. It’s also about some of the potentialities that socially engaged art may be able to explore…Read more Socially engaged art–marginal practices & critical utopias
Socially engaged art–marginal practices & critical utopias
I delivered this talk about my research to the Northumbria - Sunderland AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training Student Conference on the 1st July 2015 at The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. It’s about negating a negation – negative dialectics. It’s also about some of the potentialities that socially engaged art may be able to explore…Read more Socially engaged art–marginal practices & critical utopias
colouring in culture 