Politicized Practice Research Group
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Leader: Mel Jordan
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Members: Dr. Malcolm Barnard, Simon Downs, Nick Slater, Dr. Jane Tormey, Dr. Gillian Whitely, Prof. Marek Korczynski, Kuba Szreder, Vlad Morariu, Cat Hunter, Heather Connelly, Lee Campbell, Viviana Checchia
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The members of the Politicized Practice group are artists, curators, designers, researchers and academics.
The scope of research undertaken within the group addresses a range of disciplines including social graphics, art and the public sphere, curation, visual culture, art theory and contemporary art practice.
The Politicized Practice research group is interested in the relationship between the political and art, design and theoretical production. The research group starts from a shared question rather than a specific disciplinary context, asking what is a politicized practice and how can art, design and theory operate politically to affect change?
What do we mean by politicized practice?
We work to the clear principle that politicized practice (be it art, design or theory) 'acts' on the world, rather than merely 'representing' it. A politicized practice should not be confused with a political practice.
It is not a practice that is articulated as political because it includes 'politics' as the content or subject of the work but a practice that acts on and intervenes into the conditions of its discipline; visual culture's relationship to art history, anti-art ideas in relation to Fine Art practice and social graphics' relationship to capital, for example.
We are interested in politicized practice rather than critical practice as 'critical' denotes the various modernist projects in which a medium determines its own limits and specialism through the use of its own methods and concepts - where painting critiques painting, and thought critiques thought, for example. 'Politicized' enables us to engage in a more productive collection of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary dialogues and debates.
The politicized practice group intends to enable both individual and group research. Members will work on individual projects as well as group projects. All initiated projects will be developed in relation to members' research, practice and post-graduate teaching.
