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A Collective Timeline of Socially Engaged Public Art Practice 1950-2015
(Routledge, 2015-11-19) Cartiere, Cameron; Hope, Sophie; Schrag, Anthony; Yon, Elisa; Zebracki, Martin; Cartiere, Cameron; Zebracki, Martin
A visual timeline of significant contributions to Socially Engaged Practices. All histories are subjective. We cannot hope to fully capture the timeline of socially engaged artworks over the past half- millennium, but we can present a highly subjective one that acts as a starting point for inquiry. In the spirit of the collaborative underpinnings of 'new genre public art' we present selected, intertwined histories chosen by five individuals. These individuals operate from diverse locations within the eld, and their selections reflect varied interests -- from activist to aesthetic, from historical to happenings. While the legacies of socially engaged art stretch back much further, the boundaries for this timeline are 1950 - 2015 to allow for a relatively focused chronology of an already complex and expansive topography
Chewing and Pooing: The digestive system as a metaphor for practice-research in participatory contexts (Panel)
(2018-04-20) Schrag, Anthony; Hope, Sophie; Shaw, Becky
The commonality between the panel leaders lies in our use of participatory art methods to explore particular contexts (e.g. hospitals, public galleries, call centres, local authorities) in order to explore the material processes and conditions of these places with the people who work in them. Hope will present Manual Labours: Building as Body taking Nottingham Contemporary as a case study, Schrag will present Fight Club: Physicality and Office Workers within Glasgow City Council and Shaw will present Hiding in Plain Sight: Moving between Care and Research at Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery. We propose a panel in which we will each present our methodologies, making use of the metaphor of the digestive system to find out what is being ingested, masticated and digested, and by whom, and what is being excreted at the end of our research processes. We are interested in exploring the processes of exchange, interaction and co-production in the process of investigating the functions and malfunctions of organisations. What is it that is participatory about this practice-research? What are the intersubjective relations between artist-researchers and participants? How can the fleshy, pulsating, masticating, symbiotic aspects of the digestive system help and/or hinder doing practice-research in these settings? We will examine how the artist-researcher and participant fits within the metabolism of the body in which they work and how possible it is to challenge the relationships they have with the specific contexts they work in. We invite feedback and discussion on diverse methodologies which use participatory art methods to explore working environments, examining where the metaphor of digestion fails and where new metaphors, systems and imagery might be needed.
Half Eaten - Practice Research within Organisations (Workshop)
(2018-04-11) Schrag, Anthony; Hope, Sophie; Shaw, Becky
The commonality between the workshop leaders lies in our use of art methods to explore particular contexts (e.g. hospitals, public galleries, call centres, local authorities) in order to explore the material processes and conditions of these places. Our workshop explores these methodologies by playing with the metaphor of the digestive system to find out what is being ingested, masticated and digested, by whom and what is being excreted at the end of this process? What is the impact of this shit? How is it distributed and made public? Playing with the conference theme of ‘eating’, this workshop extends the metaphor to ask what position the artist-researcher might hold within the digestive system, particularly when the artist-researcher is embedded within a particular organisation or environment in a residency-type situation. This workshop invites participants to explore how they fit within the metabolic system of the specific body/field in which they work, using the metaphor of the digestive system – particularly Ingestion, Secretion, Mixing, Digestion, Absorption and Excretion. It begins with a contextualisation from the facilitators, exploring what can be understood by viewing their individual projects at Nottingham Contemporary, Glasgow City Council and Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery through the digestion metaphor. It then invites participants to map their own artistic/research processes onto this digestive system to explore where their work is the most effective: i.e. - are there processes and relationships that can be seen as choking hazards or constipation?: Are they ‘masticators’, particularly adept at chewing, but paying little attention to excretion? We will collectively build up a picture of the digestive system metaphor in relation to the participants’ research experiences. This discursive and interactive workshop examines how the artist/researcher fits within the metabolism of the body in which they work with the key outcomes for participants being creative and critical reflection. It also examines where the metaphor fails and where new metaphors, systems and imagery might be need. Would a symbiotic host/parasite relationship be more apt? What is the body in which the digestive system is operating? What is the food?