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Artwashing’ gentrification is a problem – but vilifying the artists involved is not the answer
📷 Fred Romero / Flickr, CC BY-SA Anna Francis, Staffordshire University The value of culture in regenerating cities has long been...
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Artists
Artwashing, or, Between Social Practice and Social Reproduction
February 1, 2017
Text by Magally Miranda and Kyle Lane-McKinley
Photos by Rafa Cardenas
How a Brooklyn art gallery is fighting mass incarceration“We talk about a pipeline from court involvement to arts involvement,” says Recess founder Allison Freedman Weisberg
New youth justice framework launches in Greater Manchester
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Social Art Summit Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd November 2018
Over two-days artists from around the country came together to share practice, showcase work and explore what it means to be making art through social engagement right now.
Artists, activists, community groups, curators, students, academics, funders and sectors working in the social realm were invited to join the conversation through a series of events at Site Gallery and other venues around the city. Through building a network, showcasing practice and expanding dialogue the Summit will develop agency in the field of art and social practice and test the ground for launching a Social Art Biennale
Social Art Publications is dedicated to developing a portfolio of publications to cultivate, expand and promote knowledge in and about social practice.
Building from the vision of the Social Art Network (SAN), SAP will develop expanded critical and reflective dialogue around the work of socially engaged practice, be a platform to showcase new work, strengthen peer support for artist book distribution, and be a database of current and historic publications.
Climbing the ladder: socially engaged practice and participation
At the recent two-day Social Making symposium in Plymouth, socially engaged practice was discussed in relation to Arnstein's Ladder, a theory of citizen participation devised in the 1960s. Carolyn Black explores its relevance.
PHOTOGRAPHY AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE
AN ARCHIVE OF RESEARCH AND DIALOGUE AROUND SOCIALLY ENGAGED PHOTOGRAPHY
Michael G. Birchall
Socially engaged art in the 1990s and beyond
How incarcerated filmmakers are showing their work on the walls of Eastern State Penitentiary.
by Samantha Melamed, Updated: August 6, 2019
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Can Art Revive South Chicago? These Artists Are Trying To Infuse New Life Into The Neighborhood
Kimberly Jin
What matters is what you do with the image: JR’s Inside Out
BY TIFFANY FAIREYJANUARY 9, 2018PROJECTS
Inside Out is about getting images out “into the wild”. It is more visual activism than participatory art. The focus is on putting the images out into the world, on coming up with ways and places to paste and use them to spread a message.
This is interesting and progressive, you can also see the Manifesto here
October 2019
Interesting conversations at Future Ville Art Summit with big thanks to Art Space Life Space
Dr. Sophie Hope Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London and Co-Founder of B+B Curatorial Partnership
Jubilee Arts was a unique community arts organisation based in Sandwell in the Black Country. This web site documents the period 1974-94, two decades of tremendous change. Locked away in the basement of West Bromwich Town Hall since the last century, we’ve dusted off the archive boxes, bringing them back to the light of day.
Mapping the Landscape of Socially Engaged Artistic Practice
Alexis Frasz & Holly Sidford Helicon Collaborative
“Artists are the real architects of change,
not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.”
William S. Burroughs
Designing participation systems around people, not institutions
Participatory City approach Deep Dive #2 looks at why its vital to build dynamic and adaptive practical participation eco-systems, and how this differs from our current approaches to fostering networks of neighbourhood activity.
READ THE RESEARCH REPORT THAT DOCUMENTS THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR THE PARTICIPATORY CITY PROJECT.
The Open Works research project aimed to test if a platform approach could scale up the new type of ‘participation culture’ that has emerged over the last 6 - 10 years. It aimed to discover if a high density of this type of micro participation activity, built into the fabric of everyday life, has the potential to aggregate and combine to achieve lasting long term change, both for individuals and for neighbourhoods.
The Elephant and Castle area of London is currently undergoing massive redevelopment and seismic change, and right at the heart of this transformation is London College of Communication, sited here for the past 50 years.
Initiated by the College, the Charting the Elephant project aims to research and map artworks and arts projects inspired by and produced in Elephant and Castle, revealing the recent rich and complex cultural heritage of the area.
Originally conceived as an interactive map, once we realised just how much arts activity there has been, we expanded the research to include a timeline and project index.
Mapping the Landscape of Socially Engaged Artistic Practice
Alexis Frasz & Holly Sidford Helicon Collaborative