Socially Engaged Adventures

Some of the socially engaged / collaborative/ participatory /relational projects we are following:

>>> In London:

Communal Knowledge / The Showroom

http://www.theshowroom.org/local.html?id=47

The Cut / [ s p a c e ]

http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/events/the…

Edgware Road Project / The Serpentine Gallery

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/01/edgware_r…

Creative Mapping / Iniva

http://www.iniva.org/learning/creative_mapping

Interaction Projects / Artangel

http://www.artangel.org.uk/interaction_projects

Golden Threads / Delta Arts

http://www.delta-arts.co.uk/Delta_Arts/Golden_Thre…

We are also interested in using empty spaces and are following Meanwhile Space who are launching their Whitechapel space this week.

Meanwhile Space

http://www.meanwhilespace.com/

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Wysing Arts Centre

http://www.wysingartscentre.org/

Radar / Loughborough

http://www.arts.lboro.ac.uk/radar/programme_archive/building_green_/

http://www.arts.lboro.ac.uk/radar/research_archive/art_in_the_social_sphere__january_2009/

Situations / Bristol

http://www.situations.org.uk/index2.html

Relational/ Bristol

http://www.relational.org.uk/relational.php?mn=Home

http://www.relational.org.uk/relational.php?pn=Craftivism

Deveron Arts / Huntly / Scotland

http://www.deveron-arts.com/

Bedford Creative Arts / Bedford

http://www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/

Grizedale

http://www.grizedale.org/projects/creative.egremont.a.public.art.strategy.for.egremont

Art in Rose Hill / Modern Arts Oxford / Oxford

http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/about-us/art-in-…

Have you heard of any other interesting projects within UK? Share!!!

I have recently attended a session organised by Emerge http://www.emergelondon.org.uk/events/item/28 – Educating the Educators: Engaging with Gallery Education.

The session was run by Emma Hart and Leanne Turvey who were joined by Jane Sillis from engage. The session predominantly focused on gallery education but touched on issues present in socially engaged practice. What is the difference between gallery education and socially engaged practice to start with.

Emma Hart explored these questions using her own practice as an example. Emma approaches work with galleries as any other art work/project she is involved in and she sees working with education as a space to continue her ongoing practice. The questions of repetition, ‘workshopping’, tensions between gallery-artist-school were explored among many others.

For all interested a couple of good articles on the subject below:

The Artist as Educator: Examining Relationships between Art Practice and Pedagogy in the Gallery Context – by Emily Pringle

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tate…

Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation – by Helen Charman and Michaela Ross

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tate…

Creativity and Collaboration in Times of Austerity. Biting Back Symposium on Monday 21st March 2011 in Birmingham!

http://biteback.org.uk/

ARTFORUM / Feb 2011 / Collaboration Now

Tom Holert on Joint Ventures:

http://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201102&id=27403

In the same issue there is a great article by Julia Bryan – Wilson On Craft And Commerce

Unfortunately not available on-line.

Language used around socially engaged practice is what we are looking into to start with. Some of our reading:

Artists and Curators Talking – Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness

Socially Engaged Art, Critics and Discontents: An Interview with Claire Bishop

Can We Talk About Practice?