RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt
The network explores the meeting of contemporary art practice and interpretations of radicality through interdisciplinary dialogue. 'Radical' is a term that is open to interpretation but, in this context, we use it to promote debate, confront convention and formulate alternative ways of thinking about art practice. The fundamental aim is to consider how art practice engages with the different discourses of radicality - its histories and subversions. The network responds to a resurgence of interest in aesthetics and aims to contribute to its reconfiguration. Dialogues focus on specific instances of practice at intersections between, for example, art and activism, art and ecology, art and economies.
Radical Footage: Film and Dissent
Friday 9th March 2012
The Space, Nottingham Contemporary
Radical Footage: Film and Dissent invites the submission of short ‘radical’ films to a one-day event to be held at The Space, Nottingham Contemporary, Friday 9th March 2012. Initiated by Oliver Ressler’s introduction to his film What is Democracy? the day will explore the potential of film to contribute to social-political change.
Historically, experimental film has played a significant role in contesting the political status quo from Lenin's early C20 declaration that cinema was the most revolutionary artform to DIY footage of the Arab Spring and anti-capitalist occupations. Locally and globally, film is being used to provoke, agitate, ask questions and generate new politicized communities.
We welcome short films which address any of the following themes in any form (documentary/ experimental/ DIY/ lowtech/hitech) from (either a historical or) a contemporary perspective: public, corporate or intimate sites of dissent/protest; collective action; civil disobedience
Proposed Films for selection (30 minutes max. or a self contained extract) should be on DVD format or via weblink. Submissions should also include a 100 word bio and a 100 word contextual statement.
Deadline: 30th January 2012
Radical Footage: Film and Dissent is the latest event in a series initiated by the RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa) project, Loughborough University. The (RaRa) project and its associated book series explores the meeting of contemporary practices and interpretations of radicality to promote debate, confront convention and formulate alternative ways of thinking about art practice.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/research/groups/politicised/index.html
http://www.ibtauris.com/Highlights/Radical%20Aesthetics%20Radical%20Art.aspx
Dr. Jane Tormey and Dr. Gillian Whiteley
School of the Arts
Loughborough University
Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK
Tel: +44(0)1509 228966/228985
E-mail: J.Tormey@lboro.ac.uk, G.Whiteley@lboro.ac.uk
Just Do(ing) It: Artist-led and self-organised cultural activity as resistance to Capitalism
Saturday 14th May 2011 (11am - 6pm)
S1 Artspace, 120 Trafalgar Street, Sheffield S1 4JT
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RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt Symposium
17th November 2010
- Gavin Grindon - Kingston University, in discussion with Stephen Wright - Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Editorial Director of the Biennale de Paris (Jpeg file)
Gavin Grindon and Stephen Wright Dialogue (MP3 file)
- Morning Discussion (MP3 file)
- Felicity Colman - Manchester Metropolitan University, in discussion with Patricia MacCormack - Anglia Ruskin University (Jpeg file)
Felicity Coleman and Patricia MacCormack Dialogue (MP3 file)
- Afternoon Discussion (MP3 file)
- Plenary Session (MP3 file)
RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt Symposium podcasts
17th February 2010
- Esther Leslie - (Birkbeck, University of London)
Animated Radicalism - John Russell - (University of Reading)
The Persistence of Object - Discussion
- Malcolm Barnard - (Loughborough University)
The Possibility of Radical... - Mark Titchner - (artist)
Just what is it that makes today's individual so different, so lonely, so depressed? (What makes us what we are and not we're not) - Discussion
- Stewart Martin - (Middlesex University)
The Subsumption of Art by Capital - Gary Anderson - (Liverpool Hope University)
Thinking Through the Family: Radicalising the Domestic - Discussion
RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt book series, to be published by I.B.Tauris, explores what aesthetics might mean in the twenty first century. We use the term 'radical' to promote debate, confront convention and formulate alternative ways of thinking about art practice. The fundamental premise of the series is to reconsider the relationship between practising art and thinking about art. The series aims to liberate the notion of aesthetics from visual traditions and to expand its parameters in a creative and meaningful way. It aims to examine those multisensory, collaborative, participatory and transitory practices that have developed in the last twenty years.
We invite submissions from authors (artists and scholars) who can make a provocative contribution to the development of these debates. The series aims to:
- critique conventional approaches to thinking about art practice and aesthetics
- reconsider the interrelationships between theories and art practice on equal terms
- provide a useful resource to assist research and provoke discussion
- address current issues in response to contemporary contexts
- encourage an interdisciplinary approach to discussion
- survey recent and current material and debate
Contact series editors for more details - Dr Jane Tormey J.Tormey@lboro.ac.uk and Dr Gillian Whiteley G.Whiteley@lboro.ac.uk