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SUMMARY:U Kino Film Festival : Ukrainian Shorts
DESCRIPTION:U-Kino is a festival of Ukrainian cinema with an aim to raise visibility of Ukrainian film and culture more broadly.  \n\n\n\nThe intention is to explore possibilities of ‘disagreeing well’\, sophisticated spaces to explore conflict and the role of creative practice. The festival takes place on 9\, 30 and 31 July\, 6 and 7 August and 6 November\, to coincide with commemorative events at the National Museum of Holodomor Genocide\, Kyiv. \n\n\n\nThe first of a series of film events shows contemporary shorts exploring war\, Ukraine\, space and place. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Valeriia Lukianets\, director of Heading Home. The event is free to attend\, all welcome.The Land of Aliens  | Director Olya Chernykh\, 19 minsKachalka  | Director Gar O’Rourke\, 10 minsDear Vladimir  | Director Jeremiah Quinn\, 7 minsHeading Home | Director Valeriia Lukianets\, 24 mins
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/u-kino-ukrainian-shorts/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
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SUMMARY:STORYTELLERS + MACHINES CONFERENCE 2024
DESCRIPTION:CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE: AGENCY\, INTERACTION AND INFLUENCE IN GENERATIVE AI STORYTELLING AND ART\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStorytellers + Machines 2024 is a two-day transdisciplinary conference on creative AI at the School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, championing the contributions of artists\, creative practitioners and technologists\, alongside other voices from academia\, industry and cultural sectors in the lively and contested creative AI space.  \n\n\n\nFollowing a peer-reviewed selection process for all open call proposals\, we’ll host talks\, panel discussions\, artist presentations and performances from over 70 speakers. These will include academics from 20 universities\, alongside independent researchers\, filmmakers\, musicians\, artists and creative industry professionals from the UK and around the world – speaking \, debating\, exhibiting and performing. \n\n\n\nWe’ll also present a pop-up exhibition of AI creative works alongside the conference and a night of AI-related performances at Manchester venue The Deaf Institute. These events will celebrate the important contribution the practitioner community make to creative AI research\, testing and also challenging our ideas of what is possible with these new technologies.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConference Themes:\n\n\n\nTheme 1: Agency \n\n\n\nAI generative systems are possibly the first tools depicted as having their own creative agency. Yet\, the philosophical distinctions between creators and their tools\, audiences and their media are often blurred. What kind of agency do audiences\, authors and developers have when using generative and AI tools? Should we think in terms of control at all in these relationships and instead consider notions of collaboration\, borderless synthesis of human and machine or something else?   \n\n\n\nTheme 2: Interaction \n\n\n\nNew forms of interaction and immersion for audiences are being invented through generative and AI controlled narratives\, artworks and experiences. What are the emerging creative systems\, aesthetics and relationships between audience and producers of these forms?   \n\n\n\nTheme 3: Influence \n\n\n\nThe influence that algorithmic systems exert on society\, communities and identities\, for example through algorithmic bias and corporate ownership\, is increasingly well understood and documented in the media\, academia and the software industry. What are the socio-cultural and economic implications of such these influences on artistic and creative media producers and their audiences? And are there emerging strategies and tools that can be used to avoid\, mitigate or otherwise challenge types of harmful influence and bias\, particularly as they pertain to our narratives and media? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nTuesday 2 July \n\n\n\n\n5:00pm – Opening Event – networking and viewing.\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 3 July \n\n\n\n\n9:30am – Conference begins – keynotes and panel discussions.\n\n\n\nLate evening – Conference ends at The Deaf Institute nearby with an AI performance event.\n\n\n\n\nThursday 4 July \n\n\n\n\n9:30am – Conference begins – keynotes and panel discussions.\n\n\n\n5pm – Conference ends\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\nEarly Bird Rate – Academic and Industry (before 15 May 2024)£169.00Standard Rate – Academic & Industry Full Rate (2 days)£199.00SME discounted Rate£99.00Independent Artist discounted rate£49.00Subsidised – Postgraduate (core conference only)£49.00Subsidised – Unwaged£25.00\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGet in touch\n\n\n\nIf you have any questions related to the conference\, please contact the team at aistorytellers@mmu.ac.uk
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/storytellers-machines-conference-2024/
LOCATION:School of Digital Arts (SODA)\, 14 Higher Chatham St\,\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Manchester School of Art Degree Show
DESCRIPTION:15-22 June 2024\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Degree show celebrates the achievements of this year’s final-year students with a showcase of work from across Art\, Design\, Fashion\, Digital Arts\, Performance and Architecture. \n\n\n\nThe Private View will take place on Friday 14 June\, from 5.30pm. \n\n\n\nOpen to the public from Saturday 15 June until Saturday 22 June. \n\n\n\nOpening TimesSaturday/Sunday 10am–4pmMonday–Friday 10am–6pm \n\n\n\nThe Show will take place across Benzie\, Chatham\, Grosvenor\, Righton and SODA buildings on the Manchester Metropolitan University All Saints Campus. Click our Visiting Us page for directions. \n\n\n\nJoin our mailing list to keep up to date with latest creative and culture events.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-school-of-art-degree-show/
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SUMMARY:40 Years of the Future
DESCRIPTION:40 Years of the Future\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for a two-part series of conversations that bring together three historic Manchester-based institutions in their anniversary years to discuss the histories and future of the arts in Manchester and surrounding regions. \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nThe second event in the series will take the form of a chaired conversation between artists\, curators and researchers with connections to organisers within Manchester and neighbouring cities. The histories of marginalised artists in the first event will serve as a prompt for discussing the emergence of current and future initiatives in the city region and regions that aim to amplify less visible or peripheral voices in the art world today\, including artist-led groups and organisations. \n\n\n\nThe event will invite us to consider the continued need for these kinds of groups and spaces in our contemporary social\, economic and political context. We ask: What has changed since the founding of Manchester Art Gallery and Castlefield Gallery\, respectively? How have artists looking for spaces that fulfil their needs shaped the city? What role do art institutions play within Manchester’s art ecology today? And what the future for artists in our city and surrounding regions could or should look like? \n\n\n\nSpeakers:– Thomas Griffiths: Artist and co-director and curator of GLOAM\, Sheffield.– Jo McGonigal: Artist and Fine Art lecturer in the School of Fine Art\, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Jo McGonigal will be exhibiting at Castlefield Gallery with Frank Bowling later this year as part of the gallery’s 40th anniversary programme. \n\n\n\n– Rachel Goodyear: Artist and co-director of Islington Mill\, Salford.– Yuen Fong Ling: Artist and curator based at Bloc Studios Sheffield\, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Post Graduate Research Tutor at Sheffield Hallam University. Former director of exhibitions at Castlefield Gallery (1999-2005).– Kay Shah: Artist and member of DMZ studios. He was recently awarded the Castlefield Gallery Artist Professional Development Award at HOME as part of the Manchester Open 2023. \n\n\n\nLearn more and book tickets for the first part here \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nThese events are supported by AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement And Dialogue)\, the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nLOCATION\n\n\n\nCastlefield Gallery\, M15 4GB
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/40-years-of-the-future/
LOCATION:Castlefield Gallery\, 2 Hewitt St\, Manchester\, M15 4GB
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SUMMARY:Writing\, Place and the Creative City
DESCRIPTION:This inaugural lecture presents insights and case studies from a career-long preoccupation with the relationship between writing and place\, beginning with early colonial America\, and arriving most recently at a Manchester hospital community in the 75th anniversary year of the NHS. A common thread in this work is an insistence that writing never reflects or captures a ‘sense of place’; it generates one. Place is always polyvocal\, always experienced and spoken of in a multitude of ways\, and place writing\, even when supposedly ‘critical’\, creates place by choosing which past and present voices to amplify\, which experiences to represent. The lecture will consider the implications of this argument for the literary heritage of Manchester -what we think we know\, what we might discover\, and what we might create- and for the UNESCO City of Literature partnership’s vision of a city where ‘where reading and writing help build a fairer society’. \n\n\n\nJess Edwards is Professor of Place Writing and Head of the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. A founding member of the Department’s Centre for Place Writing\, his research has dealt consistently over two decades with the relationship between writing and place in a range of contexts and historical periods. His most recent work has focused on the contemporary uses of literature and creative writing to reinforce or challenge established ideas of place-based identity in contexts from rural landscapes to hyperdiverse cities. \n\n\n\nJohn McCauliffe Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester and Associate Publisher at Carcanet. He directs the University of Manchester’s Creative Manchester research platform\, which convenes and develops interdisciplinary research and civic partnerships in the areas of creative industries\, creative health and civic futures. His books include versions of Bosnian poet Igor Klikovac\, Stockholm Syndrome (Smith Doorstop\, 2018)\, The Kabul Olympics (Gallery\, 2020) and Selected Poems (Gallery 2021; Wake Forest 2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking Link for Writing\, Place and the Creative City
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/writing-place-and-the-creative-city/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
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SUMMARY:Intangible Sounds : DARK MASS
DESCRIPTION:Following a series of talks and workshops at SODA the school of Digital Arts we welcome you to join us at HOME for an evening of performance linked to our themes. \n\n\n\nPresented by the DⱯRK Research Group and the Music and Sonic Studies Research group (MASS) at Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nThis evening performance will showcase the soundscapes and research-influenced music being created by PhD students and staff. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nKatie Chatburn: ‘The Shape of Sounds’. Using data from her research around how people draw and perceive sound bringing graphic scores to life through a semi-improvised piece with synths and amplified strings. \n\n\n\nMarkus Hetheier: In his soundscape performance\, Markus Hetheier will investigate queer sonic geographies of Manchester. \n\n\n\nChris Gladwin: ‘Runic Acid (V.2)’ A conjunction of the city’s musical past and Pennines occult heritage from witchcraft to chaos magic. \n\n\n\nSusan O’Shea & Julian Holloway ‘Monstrous Women: Sounding Space at Boggart Hole Clough’. Bringing together field recordings\, manipulated sounds and electronic interpretations of Pankhurst’s famous first independent speech \n\n\n\nIntangible Sounds : Manchester Histories \n\n\n\nResearchers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met present a day of public talks and workshops on music and sound heritages\, followed by a nighttime music and performance event. Both the daytime activities and the evening gig will explore how music\, sound and sonic experiences constantly interweave with both time and place: creating emotions\, evoking memories and bonding us into many different kinds of community. \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by AHEAD – Arts & Humanities Engagement and Dialogue\, Manchester Met’s Engagement Programme for making a positive impact through research \n\n\n\nahead.mmu.ac.uk/ \n\n\n\nFor further information on the Manchester Histories Festival 2024. Please visit www.manchesterstoriesfesival.co.uk \n\n\n\nOr follow on socials: \n\n\n\nfacebook.com/manchesterhistories \n\n\n\ninstagram.com/manchesterhistories \n\n\n\ntwitter.com/mcrhistfest \n\n\n\n#MHF2024
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/dark-mass/
LOCATION:HOME Manchester\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, M15 4FN
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SUMMARY:Intangible Sounds
DESCRIPTION:A day of workshops talks and performances from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met present a day of public talks and workshops on music and sound heritages\, followed by a night-time music and performance event. \n\n\n\nBoth the daytime activities and the evening gig will explore how music\, sound and sonic experiences constantly interweave with both time and place: creating emotions\, evoking memories and bonding us into many different kinds of community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n10:0011:30Session One: Alternative Voices  – Round Table Discussion 11:4513:15Session Two: 40 Years of the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection14:0015:00Session Three: Paranormal Manchester15:4517:15Session Four: Intangible Heritage in Place19:0022:30Evening Event: 7.00pm DⱯRK MASS\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis event is part of  Manchester Histories Festival and will coincide with MMU’s 200 Years celebrations. It focuses on music and sound heritages.  \n\n\n\nThe event brings together several research groups  Contemporary Intimacies\, Genders and Sexualities\, MASS\, Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage \, DⱯRK)  and represents several departments from around the Faculty\, and beyond.  \n\n\n\nIt invites multiple speakers from academia; public and community history; arts and culture practice; lived experience to join in the conversation. \n\n\n\n10.00am – 11.30am – Session One: Alternative Voices (Round Table Discussion) \n\n\n\nPresented by the Contemporary Intimacies\, Genders and Sexualities (CIGS) Research Group: \n\n\n\nHosted by Karen Gabay (broadcaster\, TV producer\, podcast host & producer\, film maker) \n\n\n\nSpeakers : Prof Kirsty Fairclough • Dr Katie Milestone • Dr Susan O’Shea • Dr Kirsty Fife • Maria Ruban and John Lloyd \n\n\n\nTopics discussed will include\, \n\n\n\n\nIntersectional approaches to telling the underrepresented stories of minority gender and women’s contributions to Manchester music and their global impact\,\n\n\n\nGender and Northern Soul\,\n\n\n\nPopular music and DIY archives.\n\n\n\nOverlaps between music\, film and fashion.\n\n\n\n\n11.45am – 1.15pm – Session Two: 40 Years of the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection \n\n\n\nPresented by Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage (MCPHH) \n\n\n\nA panel with the collections founder\, curator and users from Manchester Sound Archive and a phd Student –  with interludes of recorded sound \n\n\n\nSpeakers : Prof Melanie Tebbutt • Rob Hillman\, Tameside Archivist •Dave Govier •Suzie Cloves\, PhD Student \n\n\n\nManchester Studies was initiated by Bill Williams\, the renowned historian of Jewish Manchester\, and developed by a team of other talented individuals. Between the 1970s and 80s hundreds of interviews with working class people were undertaken\, many of them born in the late nineteenth century\, detailing their lives and their experiences working in Manchester’s now lost industries. This remarkable piece of research would develop into what is now known as the Manchester Studies Oral History Collection. This panel brings together those who worked on the creation of the archive\, have used it\, and who now care for it\, in order to stimulate new conversations and research directions around this remarkable resource. We will also be providing a workshop by current oral history practitioners on best practice in oral history research. \n\n\n\n2.00pm – 3.00pm – Session Three: Paranormal Manchester : \n\n\n\nPresented by DⱯRK Research Group \n\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n• Ian Waring (Flecky Bennett ghost tour guide) \n\n\n\n•Mark P Henderson (Professional storyteller and folklore expert) \n\n\n\n• Dr. Morag Rose (Psychogeographer and expert on strange Manchester) \n\n\n\n• Emily Oldfield (Poet and writer) \n\n\n\n•Hannah Singleton (Lecturer in the Department of Art and Performance) \n\n\n\nGhosts\, earth mysteries\, UFOs\, cryptids\, occult energies\, and their kin are\, by definition\, intangible – absent presences that cannot always be fully known\, touched\, and rationally explained. Evidence\, where it exists\, is often elusive and indefinable\, and always contested.  Manchester’s strange heritage encompasses many strands of the paranormal from hauntings to occult practitioners\, hairy cryptids to canal monsters. This session seeks to explore these phenomena and allow members of the public to experience this hidden and strange side to Manchester. \n\n\n\n3.45pm – 5.15pm – Session Four: Intangible Heritage in Place \n\n\n\nPresented by the Dr Johnathan Djabarouti of the Heritage Impact Network (HIN) \n\n\n\n\nBernadette Bone\, Conservation Architect and Tutor at the Manchester School of Architecture\, Owner BB Heritage Studio\n\n\n\nJenna Johnston\, Senior Heritage Consultant\, Buttress\n\n\n\nKatie Wray\, Director\, Deloitte\n\n\n\n\nThe Manchester School of Architecture’s Dr Johnathan Djabarouti will host a ‘Long Table’ panel of invited industry guests and members of the newly created Heritage Impact Network (HIN)\, with encouragement for public participation from the audience. \n\n\n\nThe newly formed ‘Heritage Impact Network’ at Manchester Met brings together contemporary heritage researchers who have a specific interest in understanding ephemeral\, intangible\, social\, and non-physical manifestations of heritage and culture. At this Long Table event the network’s interests will respond to the UK’s recent ratification of the UNESCO (2003) Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage\, by shifting their attention to historic places. How do immaterial manifestations of culture – such as cultural practices\, storytelling\, memories\, rituals\, and events – relate to physical heritage buildings\, sites\, and places? Experienced industry heritage practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and heritage remits will join network members\, along with empty chairs at the table for audience participation in the conversation. \n\n\n\n7.00pm – 10.30 pm Evening Event DⱯRK MASS –  \n\n\n\nAt HOME\, Events Space\,  2 Tony Wilson Pl\, Manchester M15 4FN – Separate Booking page \n\n\n\nFollowing the day sessions at MMU\, please join us in the events space at HOME for an evening of performance linked to our themes. \n\n\n\nPresented by the DⱯRK Research Group and the Music and Sonic Studies Research group (MASS) at Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nThis evening performance will showcase the soundscapes and research-influenced music being created by PhD students and staff. \n\n\n\nFeaturing: \n\n\n\nKatie Chatburn: ‘The Shape of Sounds’. Using data from her research around how people draw and perceive sound bringing graphic scores to life through a semi-improvised piece with synths and amplified strings. \n\n\n\nMarkus Hetheier: In his soundscape performance\, Markus Hetheier will investigate queer sonic geographies of Manchester. \n\n\n\nChris Gladwin: ‘Runic Acid (V.2)’ A conjunction of the city’s musical past and Pennines occult heritage from witchcraft to chaos magic. \n\n\n\nSusan O’Shea & Julian Holloway  ‘Monstrous Women: Sounding Space at Boggart Hole Clough’.
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/intangible-sounds-manchester-histories-festival/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG
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SUMMARY:200 Years of Manchester Art Gallery
DESCRIPTION:200 Years of Manchester Art Gallery\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us for a FREE two-part series of conversations that bring together three historic Manchester-based institutions in their anniversary years to discuss the histories and future of the arts in Manchester and surrounding regions. \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nThis first event takes the origins of Manchester Art Gallery as its starting point\, looking at its multiple histories and putting them in conversation with the present. To initiate a conversation about the roles played by this civic art institution and how it relates to similar organisations in the North of England\, we will ask questions about who founded the gallery\, and how that impacted its development. We will also consider the gallery as a site of education (for example\, hosting life drawing classes)\, provoking wider questions about who had access to these events and how the gallery continues to be an educational institution today. Through asking these questions\, we hope to uncover some of the lesser-known voices and hidden histories that have been involved in the story of Manchester’s historic gallery\, drawing parallels with institutions in Manchester such as Castlefield Gallery and Manchester School of Art and further afield in particular Leeds Art Gallery. \n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Danielle Child (Manchester School of Art) and will take the form of three talks from Rebecca Wade (Special Collections and Galleries\, University of Leeds)\, Hannah Williamson (Fine Art Curator\, Manchester Art Gallery)\, and Thomas Dukes (Curator and Researcher) followed by Q&A. Peter Davis\, the archivist for Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA) established in 1858 will also be at the event offering attendees a chance to look through some of MAFA ‘s scrapbooks. \n\n\n\nLearn more and book tickets for the second part here \n\n\n\n______ \n\n\n\nThese events are supported by AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement And Dialogue)\, the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nhttps://ahead.mmu.ac.uk
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/200-years-of-manchester-art-gallery/
LOCATION:Manchester Art Gallery\, Moseley Street\, Manchester\, M2 3JL
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talks : Talk #134: Chris Thorpe In Conversation with Prof. Simon Stephens
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 7 May 2024\, 5.30pmSalutation Pub (upstairs)  \n\n\n\nChris Thorpe is an Associate Artist at the Royal Exchange\, Manchester – work for them includes There Has Possibly Been An Incident and The Mysteries. Chris’s performance work tours internationally\, and is also regularly produced for stage and radio throughout Europe and in the US. \n\n\n\nBunker talks are interviews with amazing performers and researchers hosted by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art\, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical\, ecological or economic concerns and invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. The talks create space for critical encounters\, presentations\, provocation and dialogue. \n\n\n\nA recording of this talk will be available from 7 June. \n\n\n\nFind all previous talks here: www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talks-chris-thorpe/
LOCATION:The Salutation Pub\, 12 Higher Chatham St\, Manchester\, M15 6ED
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Symposium - Cultural Action and The Performing Arts: Equitable Models of Economic Growth
DESCRIPTION:Exploring theatre\, dance and performance as a means of effecting social change and promoting more equitable avenues for economic growth
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/symposium-cultural-action-and-the-performing-arts-equitable-models-of-economic-growth/
LOCATION:Brooks Building\, Manchester Metropolitan University\, 53 Bonsall Street\, Manchester\, M15 6GX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Art\, Labour\, Text and Radical Care
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 4pm on 8th March to celebrate the launch of the new book Art\, Labour Text and Radical Care by Dr Adam Walker\, published by Routledge. \n\n\n\nThrough developing an ethical-methodological approach of ‘radical care’\, Art\, Labour Text and Radical Care explores how critical artistic practice might contribute to the materialisation of more equal\, more collectively fulfilling\, possibilities of being. The chapters trace a set of interweaving lineages perpetuating inequalities: through labour\, the body\, and onto-epistemology. Art’s all too frequent a-criticality\, cooption\, or even complicity amidst these lineages is observed\, and radical care and the disruptive arttext are developed as twin aspects of an alternative\, resistant framework. \n\n\n\nAlongside a presentation by Adam sharing some of the book’s core arguments\, Dr Danielle Child and Drs Pil and Galia Kollectiv will share some of their research\, after which there will be a panel discussion focussed on art’s present position and alternative possibilities within structures of labour. \n\n\n\nThe presentations and discussion will be followed by drinks and light refreshments. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis Event Is Free
URL:https://ahead.mmu.ac.uk/event/book-launch-art-labour-text-and-radical-care-2/
LOCATION:Manchester Metropolitan University\, Geoffrey Manton Building\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6EB
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