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No Room to Move
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No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City
A fistful of research on the state of critical public art in the maelstrom of New Labour's regeneration programmes.
By Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles


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Background articles for ICA discussion News & Analysis
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)
http://www.metamute.org/en/Basic-Instinct-Trauma-and-Retrenchment-2000-4

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:


Interview with Roman Vasseur Editorial content | Articles
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'

 

 


Interview with Nils Norman Editorial content | Articles
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

 

 


No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City Editorial content | Articles
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.


No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City Editorial content | Articles
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.


Arts Centre 2.0 or Social Factory? Editorial content | Articles
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

 


Airing Dirty Laundry in Public Art Editorial content | Articles
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

 


The future of the arts in Scotland - a briefing paper on Creative Scotland News & Analysis
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.


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