thanks :-)
m.
..ooOO ( media idea ) wrote:
( great work, thanks for the link ) OOoo...
marc escribió:
Mistaken As Red.
By Peter Suchin.
With political art now celebrated in galleries and museums all over
the world what happens when practices tied to specific struggles and
places are institutionalised? At the recent retrospective of textbook
political artist, Loraine Leeson, Peter Suchin uncovers the remains
of an earlier discussion intitiated by Art & Language to propose a
radical reconsideration of Leeson’s art and the terms of the debate
The recent retrospective of the work of Loraine Leeson at London’s
SPACE studios, Art for Change, throws up a number of questions about
the efficacy and even the desirability of something one might term,
for the sake of convenience at least, ‘political art’. This is an
issue to which I will return below. Based on a much more substantial
exhibition organised by the New Society of Visual Artists in Berlin,
2005, the London show focused upon a number of key projects organised
and executed by Leeson in collaboration with her former partner and
colleague Peter Dunn. Extracts from and documentation of five periods
of work were presented at SPACE: Leeson and Dunn’s involvement in the
Bethnal Green Hospital Campaign (1977-78), that concerning the East
London Health Project (1978-81), the Docklands Community Poster
Project which ran for ten years from 1981, ‘The Art of Change’ (also
1981-1991), and cSPACE, Leeson’s still current concern, an
organisation she founded in 2002. ‘The exhibition’, according to the
accompanying leaflet, ‘celebrates Loraine Leeson as an artist whose
work has influenced and supported social change for over thirty
years. Leeson’s practice’, the text tells us, ‘is underpinned by a
collaborative process which has involved health workers, trade
unions, tenants associations, action groups, young people, schools
and institutions, as well as other artists and professionals.’
more...
http://www.metamute.org/en/Mistaken-As-Red
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
