Art

Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its implications for art, research and education. Geraldine has since slipped her collar to appear in this short story by Katrina Palmer satirising the apparently limitless masochism of the contemporary artist

October

Yayoi Kusama’s current Tate Modern retrospective provokes Josephine Berry Slater to join the dots of the artist’s agonising and ecstatic constellation of obliteration and multiplication

With art schools' integration into the university system, artists are required to present their work as written ‘exegesis’. Here, Danny Butt traces exegesis back to its origins as a form of knowledge production and considers its limiting effect on art’s own power of revelation

While experimentation and activism often focus on art school education or education as art, there is a tendency to ignore the creeping influence of corporate public pedagogy which is poisoning the roots of art education in the UK’s schools. Art pedagogy can only be radical, writes Dean Kenning, if it takes on the exclusions and market bias which are impoverishing educational culture

An exhibition at Gasworks singled out the thematic of 'management' as a lens through which to examine multiple artistic approaches to labour, organisation, communication and measurement. Marina Vishmidt gives the show an evaluative performance review
 

Artistic actions outside the gallery may vary widely in their approach to social space as material, but, as Sophie Schasiepen argues in this review, their representation inside the gallery rarely does

Gregory Sholette’s book, Dark Matter, provides a useful collectivising term for those artists who produce the art world from below. But, wonders Stefan Szczelkun, how can we talk about cultural exclusion without thinking seriously about class?

When the excluded are made visible, when they demand visibility, it is always ultimately a matter of politics and a rethinking of history. This is often the case with artists collectives.

– Gregory Sholette