Hi Michael,
Yes, the questions pritchard comes up with I think are really important and
relevant for artsist and arts organisations, in respect that they should look
behind the hood regarding what's behind the projects/groups, supporting their
art ventures.
I agree with your comments below,
>'Perhaps if we’re really interested in regeneration then spending enough
>money on the huge quantity of quality housing that’s needed, under proper
>public control might be the ticket with durability, sustainability, space
>and comfort coming well before art, but I’m sure that’s ‘old fashioned
>thinking’ .Thanks for posting the piece here :)
I also feel that big organisations such as the Tate, should not hold as much
cultural weight and power over art culture as they currently do. I tend to
prefer breaking down big art institutions, into smaller, decentralised, varied
groups, across what ever region they may exist in. So that the art narrative
(hopefully) is less top-down, and more representative of the locality. I think
the ideal would be to introduce a more hybrid way of exhibiting where each show
includes local people by some ratio/percentage.
Wishing you well.
marc
> This is a very interesting and useful piece of writing, Marc - I hadn’t come
> across Pritchard’s work before. A helpfully clear eyed and sober look at
> magical thinking art-world players, neo-liberal wolves in sheep’s clothing
> and the many careerists in between! Perhaps if we’re really interested in
> regeneration then spending enough money on the huge quantity of quality
> housing that’s needed, under proper public control might be the ticket with
> durability, sustainability, space and comfort coming well before art, but I’m
> sure that’s ‘old fashioned thinking’ .Thanks for posting the piece here :)
> michael
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> On Saturday, September 21, 2019, 12:05 pm, marc.garrett via NetBehaviour
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>> Complexity, uncertainty & scalability: How Assemble's Granby 4 Streets won
>> 2015 Turner Prize.
>>
>> Stephen Pritchard.
>>
>> "Did Assemble really play such a big part in Granby 4 Streets? How
>> 'community-led' was the project? What was the role of the Community Land
>> Trust? How did Assemble come to win the Turner Prize 2015? Who were the
>> private social investors and what did they do to help make the project
>> happen?
>>
>> The intention here is to blow open the façade behind Granby 4 Streets,
>> Assemble and the Turner Prize 2015 win.
>>
>> This is a long read and part of my research into art-led regeneration
>> projects that are often far more complex than is often portrayed.
>>
>> I argue that the media and art world picture of Assemble is overly
>> simplistic and masks a far more complex and uncertain set of events that,
>> ultimately, relied on 'mystery' private social investors to force local
>> government to act in support of the project and to lever money from national
>> grant funders."
>>
>> http://tiny.cc/dqq4cz
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