This post is a first draft of part of my doctoral research methodology. I have been developing my thinking using a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives that are both complementary and conflicting. This has led to the development of a research design founded on a working hypothesis that (hopefully) better expresses the nature of my research than the (deliberately ironic) research question might. … READ MORE
Month: June 2014
Interesting new post by Anamaria Wills: can NPOs adapt & remain resilient in a fast changing cultural landscape?… READ MORE
Second post : ‘Occupy artists take message to streets’ from BBC (via @illuminator99) # PhDResearch
This link takes you to a really interesting piece by the BBC from 2012 exploring how Occupy use arts as a powerful means of producing counter-hegemonic discourse with big public impact. Features Illuminator 99%.… READ MORE
I have been a long-time admirer of the amazingly simple, incredibly expressive and exceptionally impactful work of activist arts movement Illuminator 99%. Their work epitomises, for me, the spirit of Occupy and other non-hierarchical counter-hegemonic movements. This video is the first of two I wish to post to (hopefully) stimulate some discussion around arts, activism and social justice.… READ MORE
Interesting critique of the discourse analysis of Laclau & Mouffe as ‘constructivist idealism’ … READ MORE
I’m going over to the other side
I’m happy to have and not to have not
Big business is very wise
I’m inside free enterprise
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
Not a love songI’m adaptable, I’m adaptable
I’m adaptable and I like my new role
I’m getting better and better
And I have a new goal
I’m changing my ways where money applies(This is not a love song, Public Image Limited, 1983)
What can the arts learn from football?… READ MORE
Trench art update from @TheresaEaston… READ MORE
northerngame
A child stands, face turned away from the camera, on a piece of ground somewhere near a small village in Northumberland. The ground seems marked, and marked out, as if for a ritual: possibly the celebration of a pagan god. The child is a question: a question of belonging, of tradition and masculinity, of the past and the future, its face turned away to the smouldering hills.… READ MORE
northerngame
Working with traditional communities and contemporary exhibitions
This post is an initial attempt to describe an extraordinary socially engaged art commission I was lucky enough to co-create with artist Stevie Ronnie. The work was participatory; the exhibition likewise. The opening was Friday 6th June. The work is on show until the end of July, so this is my reflection of our work up to the exhibition and what happened at the opening…
Ring, Ringer, Wring, Case hardened steel Northumbrian quoit, wrought iron hob, shark wire, blue clay, found items, Stevie Ronnie 2014 (photograph, Stephen Pritchard)
Artist: Stevie Ronnie
Curator/ producer: Stephen Pritchard
Produced by: dot to dot active arts CIC
Commissioned by: The Whistle Art Stop
Location: pubs across South West Northumberland
Exhibition venue: Haltwhistle, Northumberland
Funded by: Arts Council England and Northumberland Arts Development
Project dates: April to June 2014
Exhibition dates: 6th June to end July 2014
Appropriated image of spectators watching game at Cart’s Bog, Allen Valley Quoits League website
northerngame is a project that has really just begun. … READ MORE
Mark Carrigan: “The quote in this title isn’t from a critique of Buzzfeed written by a contemporary critical theorist loftily bemoaning everything this site is coming to represent. It’s from a paper written by the founder of Buzzfeed when he was a critical theorist loftily bemoaning the cultural logic of late capitalism…” Hmm…… READ MORE