Ken Saro-Wiwa Memorial Bus, large format digital print, part of Doing Nothing is Not an Option, Michael McMillan and Platform London, Peckham Platform, 2015 I was, like Anthony Schrag (and others I know), infuriated by the recent ArtWorks Conversation at BALTIC 39. Anthony has written a little about the pairing of Ilana Mitchell (Wunderbar…Read more The Values Of Opposition in Socially Engaged Practice (a response to Anthony Schrag)
Month: November 2015
Reblog: Art and (In)equality–a film of my provocation @CREATEglos event on 1st June 2015
All this talk of "revelatory" discovery that arts and culture are exclusive makes me remember my talk at CREATEglos in July. Click the link to see the film... Source: Art and (In)equality–a film of my provocation @CREATEglos event on 1st June 2015
Hurrah, the Culture is Finished!
This blog post initially vented some of my concerns about cultural policy and cultural value in particular. Nearly two years old, its premise still drives much of my practice and research.
Comments and discussion most welcome…
This mini-essay was first published on the #culturalvalue initiative website on 5th January 2014. I’m reblogging it here with their introduction.
Stephen’s witty and well researched mini-essay contribution to The #culturalvalue Initiative originated in a lively twitter conversation that followed the publication of Daniel Allington’s guest post, Intrinsically cultural value: a sociological perspective in early December 2013. The conversation started off as a debate on the merits of Bourdieu’s work in pushing forward the cultural value debate and soon broadened to the relative merits of different disciplinary approaches. I was fascinated by the exchange between Stephen and Daniel, but it soon became apparent that it was more complex than a twitter debate could cope with. So, I invited Stephen to write a short guest post response to Daniel’s piece so that interesting conversation could continue on this site. This would allow to keep a permanent record of it and…
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northernGAME: Social practice in rural South West Northumberland
I gave this presentation on 16th November 2015 at Durham University's Participatory Research Hub. The event aimed to explore what happens "when participatory research meets the creative sector". My presentation introduces dot to dot active arts, features my recent paper A View Is Always Worth It: Social Practice in Rural North East England, then reflects…Read more northernGAME: Social practice in rural South West Northumberland
Do we need to develop institutions to work with communities? Can’t artists work directly with and within communities? A response to #CommunityArts conference at The Black-E
Dotto, Courtesy of The Black-E. I asked the two questions in my title as an immediate response to a panel entitled ‘What kind of organisation do we need to develop to work with communities…?’ The problem seemed obvious; becoming increasingly apparent as the Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists’ Social Initiatives conference (part of…Read more Do we need to develop institutions to work with communities? Can’t artists work directly with and within communities? A response to #CommunityArts conference at The Black-E
colouring in culture 