Dear All, The ARG publication is finally here! A big thank you to everyone involved and a shout out to Saul Studio for their design of the publication!
We hope you enjoy!
Click on link- Artist-led Research Group Symposium Publication
Ecologies And Economies Programme
Dear All, See the delegate pack for the symposium >>>>>> Symposium_Delegate Pack
See you all tomorrow!
John and Kerry
Provisional Schedule of ARG Symposium 2018
Dear All, We are delighted to announce the provisional schedule for the ARG symposium at the end of the month. Please see link. More information will follow!
Ecologies and Economies of the Artist-led: Place, Space, Futures Symposium in Leeds, UK, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 October 2018
Dear All, We are delighted to announce the first Artist-led Research Group Symposium. Please follow the link below.
Best Wishes,
Kerry and John
Documents from the Planning Meetings
Hi All, Here are the documents and notes from the planning meetings.
CVAN_Brief for Review_Analysis_FINAL
Next ARG Meeting TUESDAY 24 APRIL
Next reading group: TUESDAY 24 APRIL, 6pm, School of Fine Art
Text: Morgan Quaintance, The New Conservatism, e-flux, available here: https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/the-new-conservatism-complicity-and-the-uk-art-worlds-performance-of-progression/7200
Conference – briefing paper
Hi All,
Here is the conference briefing paper for next weeks meeting. We will use this as a platform to help generate ideas in next weeks meeting. ARG_events_October2018.
Reading for next ARG meeting
Hi All, this is the link to the reading. Click here (Céline Condorelli, ‘Too Close to See: Notes on Friendship, a Conversation with Johan Frederik Hartle’, in Self-organised (London: Open Editions, 2013), pp. 62-73). Carla Cruz, Practising Solidarity (London: Common Practice, 2015) Available at: http://sca-net.org/downloads/57fcdf6a1c3ea-commonpracticepracticingsolidary.pdf
Best wishes
New Readings 16/01/18
Hi all, here is the new reading for Tuesday’s meeting. The reading is by Suhail Malik entitled, Art Education and the Predicament of Professionalised Criticality.
Download here. Art Education and the Predicament of Professionalised Criticality
The meeting will be held @ FAHACS starting at 18:00.
See you there.
New Readings
ARG–December lores Hi all see this link to the pdf versions of the readings.
Reading for the Artist led Research Group
wk 1 Taken from Dark Matter, Gregory Sholette
‘By grasping the politics of their own invisibility and marginalization, they (the artist) challenge the formation of normative artistic values…it is a matter of politics and a rethinking of history’. P4
‘Capitalism is not a totality – it is a text with multiplicities of interpretative possibilities that generate local conflicts of power and temporary moments of subjectivity.’ P15
wk 3 Activism and Cultural Activism – reading around protest, movements and alterity in the context of social and cultural change.
Moments of Excess: movements, protest and everyday life; The Free Association p11-21 (one chapter)
Crack Capitalism; John Holloway
P20 final paragraph – p26
A Postcapitalist Politics; JK Gibson-Graham
Intro The Makings of an Imaginary xxiii – xxxvii
Alternative Economic Spaces (quick definition of alterity using alternative economic institutions)
Edited by Leyshon, Lee and Williams p56-57.
Artist-led Research Group 