The intuition informing this workshop is that art activists not only contest prevailing norms about political violence but also engage consciously and overtly with publics in debates through their activism. Our opening position was complicated by a discussion about the nature of art activism, as opposed to activism, which was unresolved; and by the emergence…

A talk by Dr Emma Mahony (School of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin) Wednesday, 14 December, School of the Arts, English and Drama, Edward Barnsley room 63.1.07 Dr. Emma Mahony is a Lecturer in the School of Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. From 2004-8 she…

A talk by Marina Maximova, PhD researcher PHIR 10am Wednesday 18 May – Edward Barnsley 63.1.08, School of the Arts, English and Drama, Loughborough University   This presentation will address exhibition strategies developed by unofficial artists in Moscow as a way to resist hegemony of Socialist Realism. It will focus on ‘dissident’ artists who were forced…

Friday 20 May 2016, 10.00 – 16.00 Primary, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham NG7 1NU Cost: £5 + booking fee (including lunch) This one-day event at Primary, is inspired by the radical political roots of Action Space – a collective of artists, performers, dancers and musicians working in the community, set up in 1968 in London…

Workshop at Loughborough University, September 20-21, 2016 Sponsored by the Independent Social Research Foundation Convened by Ruth Kinna  r.e.kinna@lboro.ac.uk & Gillian Whiteley g.whiteley@lboro.ac.uk   This workshop is the result of a collaboration between colleagues in the Anarchism Research Group and the Politicised Practice Research Group at Loughborough University and is designed to build new relationships between artists and political theorists and to explore questions…

04 Mar 2016 On the occasion of the visit of the creators of a Worker’s University in an occupied factory in Tuzla, this event brings together researchers and participants from art schools, radical art and worker movements in the UK and Yugoslavia. Student Art Centres in Yugoslavia were important meeting points between artists and broader…

3 Mar 2016 Join Workers from the Occupied Factory and Worker’s University in Tuzla in conversation with Nottingham’s Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation! In 2015 workers at the DITA Factory in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, occupied and took control of a factory inactive due to bankruptcy and corruption. Drawing from the force of the plenums (public…

    Led by Aria Spinelli, Vlad Morariu and Stevphen Shukaitis. With Vladan Jeremic (Belgrade). This session is a combined presentation and discussion format based around histories of art strikes and artists unions. The presentation will introduce the history of the art strike through its multiple iterations and mutations, and union organizing by artists. These…

Castoriadis revisited – Questioning radical imaginary in contermporary art and curatorial practice Loughborough University Epinal Way, LE11 3TU, Loughborough A Politicized Practice Research Group event at Loughborough University WEDNESDAY June 17th 2015 10am to 5pm in the Cope Auditorium at School of the Arts Loughborough University Book your place (£10 full, £5 concessions/students – includes…

6th May 2015 at 5pm Radar, LU Artscentre, Edward Barnsley, Loughborough University Richard Cubesville and Stevphen Shukaitis will be sharing their experiences of, motivations for, and perspectives on DIY and Anarchist Publishing. Both these presenters are actively engaged in forms of publishing that differ markedly from the industry norm – but they differ from one…