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The Politics of Engagement 13
th
March 2015
Jane Trowell, Platform
Www.platformlondon.org
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'Context is half the work'Artists Placement Group, 1960s
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Where are we?
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When are we?
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By UHC Collective, commissioned by Platform
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The Niger Delta
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The Nigerian oil industry, map by Platform
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Ogoniland
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Battle Bus, The Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa
by Sokari Douglas Camp
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Who are we?
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http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.co.uk
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Why are we?
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“It’s not an ego trip,
it’s serious,
it’s politics,
it’s economics,
it’s everything.
And art in that instance
becomes so meaningful
both to the artist and
to the consumers of that
art”
Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1994
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“Poetry is not a luxury”
and
“Your silence will not protect you”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
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With whom are we?
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'social practice'
'socially engaged practice'
'dialogical aesthetics' (Kester)
'relational aesthetics' (Bourriaud)
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Catherine Itzin, 1980
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1994, Salford
www.littoral.org.uk
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1994, Dun Laoghaire
www.littoral.org.uk
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Suzanne Lacy, 1995
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Embed the thing in social movements
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How do we...keep going?
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Book Bloc, anti-cuts protest, 2010
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North Kent, rivers Thames & Medway,
and The Swale
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'The Body Electric' course