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Background articles for ICA discussion
Submitted by szczels on Friday, 12 February, 2010 - 14:23
Stefan Szczelkun Two other Anthony Davies texts on Metamute are essential if this debate on the ICA is to be understood in a wider context. As well as his original Culture Clubs (2000) written with Simon Ford the two texts are: 1. Basic Instinct: Trauma and Retrenchment 2000-4 (2005) Basic instinct alludes to the reassertion of capitals core values within the art scene. It starts with a reference to the previous director at the ICA: subject: Activism | Cultural Industries | Economics | Financial Crisis | Management Theory | Patronage
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 25 November, 2009 - 17:02
Josephine Berry Slater & Anthony Iles Artist Roman Vasseur was appointed ‘Lead Artist’ to Harlow, a post-war New Town in Essex, in the build up to the town’s second phase of regeneration. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed the artist about his work there and his refinement of the 'aesthetics of bureaucracy'
subject: Art | Cultural Industries | Institutional Critique | Site-Specific
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 25 November, 2009 - 16:57
Josephine Berry Slater & Anthony Iles
Artist Nils Norman has engaged extensively with the language of urban planning, architecture and urban regeneration. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles interviewed him about the positioning of his work between the mutually exclusive worlds of art and urban development
subject: Art | Cultural Industries | Relational Aesthetics | Site-Specific | Socially Engaged
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 24 November, 2009 - 17:09
Josephine Berry Slater & Anthony Iles Critiques of the instrumentalised role of culture within the current stage of urban development, so-called ‘culture led urban regeneration', are becoming increasingly common. A rising crescendo of criticism may finally be denting the blithe confidence of the ‘Creative City' formula and its liberal application to all manner of post-industrial urban ills. subject: Art | Cultural Industries | New Enclosures | Relational Aesthetics | Site-Specific
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 24 November, 2009 - 16:45
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, Anthony Iles and Josephine Berry Slater take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making. subject: Art | Cultural Industries | New Enclosures | Patronage | Site-Specific | Socially Engaged
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 - 15:55
Simon Ford
Torturing their metaphors and confusing art and business, New Labour's favourite creative consultants revealed their vision for the future of arts institutions in the age of networks. Simon Ford reports from the Cornerhouse's ‘The Art of With' conference
subject: Computing | Cultural Industries | Management Theory | Relational Aesthetics
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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 16 July, 2009 - 14:54
Malcolm Miles
On visiting ‘Art in Public Places: the Archive of the Public Art Development Trust', Malcolm Miles evaluates the role of art commissioning agencies in changing the face of public art in the UK
subject: Cultural Industries | Regeneration | Relational Aesthetics | Site-Specific
The future of the arts in Scotland - a briefing paper on Creative Scotland
Submitted by Simon Yuill on Friday, 12 December, 2008 - 00:02
Variant - http://creativescotland.blogspot.com Creative Scotland is the proposed merger of the public bodies the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen into a private company. Culture Minister, Linda Fabiani, recently insisted of Creative Scotland: "We all want to get this up and running." In truth, this apparent urgency conceals a major ideological fault line between public and private provision in Scotland. A recent artists-led meeting in Glasgow brought practitioners together to discuss the proposed formation and develop a broader understanding of its implications. subject: Art | Arts funding | Cultural Industries | Financial Crisis | Institutional Critique
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