Project Title – Applications of Socially Engaged Art
Project Description
The socially engaged arts have been developed in a number of fields as transformative interventions entailing specific forms of arts practice and methods of inquiry. The combination of artistic and social elements gives rise to tensions between aesthetic, ethical and instrumental dimensions of the work. This PhD will study the nature and significance of the socially engaged arts as an aesthetic and relational practice, a mode of inquiry and an agent for personal and social change. The precise field will be determined in consultation with the successful candidate but we would particularly welcome applications with an interest in addictions and recovery.
The title on the paperwork is Socially Engaged Art and Substance Misuse
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Reading:
Bounce – The myth of talent and the power of practice (Matthew Syed); Everyday Life – Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present (Michael Sheringham); Artificial Hells – Participatory Art and The Politics of Spectatorship.
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Dear Martin
Thank you for your recent application to our Wild Card open call for artists.
Unfortunately your application was unsuccessful. We had a fantastic response with over 250 high quality applications from artists all over the world. We enjoyed reading all the applications and it was a very difficult decision in selecting only one artist.
Due to the high volume of applications I am unable to provide feedback on individual applications. Thank you for taking the time to apply and we will keep your contact details on file.
All the best,
Hi Martin,
Thank you for your patience with the Launch Pad decision. Our selectors, Stephen Snoddy (Director of the New Art Gallery Walsall) and Matthew Pendergast (independent curator and Castlefield Gallery’s Interim Programme Manager) have now made their decision and unfortunately on this occasion your application was unsuccessful. We had an excellent response to this Launch Pad callout and the quality of proposals was really high. We hope you will apply for Launch Pad again.
Please let me know if you would like any feedback on your application, and if so I will pass your request on to Matthew.
Best wishes, and thank you again for applying,
Thank you for your application for a scholarship to undertake a programme of research.
We regret that after consideration of your application the University is not able to offer you a scholarship on a research degree programme and you will therefore not be shortlisted for interview.
We would like to thank you for the interest you have shown in De Montfort University and wish you all the best for your future academic aspirations.
nearly 2 months since my last post; been Copenhagen, London and Hamburg…..
Serial Attitudes at Hamburger Kunsthalle
Repetition as an artistic method since the 1960s
1 November 2013 – 25 May 2014
In December 1967, a piece by the American artist Mel Bochner entitled “The Serial Attitude” was published in the contemporary art magazine Artforum. In the very first sentence, Bochner states that “Serial order is a method, not a style,” making it quite clear that for him, seriality was by no means an empty shell or some kind of formal gimmickry; it was a deliberate artistic strategy. The emergence of Minimal and Conceptual art in the 1960s radically changed the concept of the artwork. Key characteristics of these art movements are serial methods, repetition, a reduction to basic, often geometric structures, and the use of industrial materials. The exhibition presents works by leading American and European exponents of Minimal and Conceptual art from the Hamburger Kunsthalle collection, supplemented by major loans from private collections. Participating artists: Josef Albers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Bill Bollinger, Stanley Brouwn, Hanne Darboven, Dan Flavin, Douglas Huebler, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Morris, Giulio Paolini, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Franz Erhard Walther.
Curators: Dr. Brigitte Kölle and Dr. Petra RoettigAssistance: Merle Radtke
