The future is Social Symposium March 2011
Resources
Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Adrian George, Tate Publishing, 2003
Common Wealth, Jessica Morgan, Tate Publishing, 2003
Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art, Grant H Kester, University of California Press, 2004
Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture, Karsten Schubert & Daniel McClean (eds.), Ridinghouse, 2002
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life, Allan Kaprow, University of California Press, 2003
Interrupt Symposia, 2004
Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics and Publics, 1974-2007, Suzanne Lacy, Duke University Press, 2010
Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art Series), Claire Bishop (ed.), MIT Press, 2006
Perform, Jens Hoffman and Joan Jonas, Thames & Hudson 2005
Site-specific Art: performance, place and documentation, Nick Kaye, Routledge, 2000
Socially Engaged Art, Critics and Discontents: An Interview with Claire Bishop
www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/07/socially_engage.php
The Art of Negotiation, David Butler & Viv Reiss (eds.), Cornerhouse/Arts Council England, 2007
The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, Rudolf Frieling and Boris Groys, Thames & Hudson, 2008
The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, Nato Thompson, MASS MoCA, 2006
The Live Art Almanac, Daniel Brine (ed.), Live Art Development Agency, 2008
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Charlotte Cotton, Thames & Hudson, 2009
What We Want is Free (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture), Ted Purves, State University of New York Press, 2004
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"The thought of being an artist..a Utopian idea because I don't really make anything useful. That in itself is an illustration of my own disposition....realising my dreams..that is my profession. There is no line between the kind of personal and the proffessional....I can realise my Utopian dreams and still survive through doing that."
Video link:
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Being an Artist | Art21 "Exclusive"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2EAKiV7IJc
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EMBROIDERY
Needlework Patterns, Home Craft & Women’s Magazines in the 1920s and 1930s
Francis Johnston’s designs and the instructions for making a table runner, decorated with anemones and mimosa, fit into the culture of home craft featured in women’s consumer magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, such as Women’s Weekly, Woman, and Modern Woman. Fiona Hackney pointed out that literature in the last decade has accused this type of consumer craft of limiting and even undermining women’s creativity. She argued that home craft, as part of a new commercial culture of home-making in the period, provided women with opportunities for self-expression and doing things for themselves..........
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Patrick Barkham The Guardian,
Back from the dead
Not since the Victorians has taxidermy been so fashionable. The way things are going, no trendy wine bar or loft apartment will be complete without a stuffed poodle or horse. But why did dead animals stop being tacky? And what does it mean for endangered species? Patrick Barkham meets the men and women making corpses into art
http://gu.com/p/xtj6q
Title: Queer As Folk Art: Gender, Homosexuality and Textiles.
This paper will discuss Australian artist Brett Alexander’s visual arts practice and his exploration, through material and technique, of gender, textile craft and male homosexuality. It will focus on three (textile) art installations he has produced during the period 2003-2006. One exhibited in Australia and the other two exhibited internationally, in Europe and the USA. These exhibitions relate to a number of the thematic topics of Taking a hard look: Gender and visual culture.
Few art or craft mediums are as gendered as textiles.
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i Parker, R., The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine, London, UK: Women’s Press Ltd., 1984.
ii Larsen, A., “Boys with Needles”, Boys With Needles, Museum London and the Textile Museum of Canada, 2003 p.4.
iii Jefferies, J., “Boys Who Sew”, Curator, Crafts Council Boys Who Sew, 2003, online, available:
http://craftscouncil.org.uk/boyswhosew/curator.html (6 Feb. 2004).
iv For further information: http://www.selvedge.org/default.aspx.
v Leonard, P., “Concept Craft or Material Metaphor”, Context, Crafts Council Boys Who Sew, 2003, online available: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/boyswhosew/context.html (6 Feb. 2004)
vi Leonard, P., “Homosexuality and textiles”, Profile, Brett Alexander, Crafts Council Boys Who Sew, 2003, online, available: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/boyswhosew/brett.html (6 Feb. 04).
vii Leonard, P., “Concept Craft or Material Metaphor", Context, Crafts Council Boys Who Sew, 2003, online, available: http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/boyswhosew/context.html (6 Feb. 2004).
viii Hibbert, K., “Knit wits”, craft, newstatesman, 1 March 2004 p. 43.
ix Hoggart, L., “Look, no kaftans...”, The Observer, Sunday, February 8, 2004, online, available: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1143318,00.html (13 Feb. 2004).
x “Sissy Boy Caught Playing With Dolls”, Landover Baptist Church, Oct., 1999, online, available: http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1099/sissy.html (13 March 07).
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Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge -
This book provides endless inspiration for possibilities with textiles and much more besides......
Each image is accompanied by full pages of text relating to the work as well as background on the the artist / designer.
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