This brings us back to the big question of whether/how we are placed as
artists to influence the attitudes that shape the decisions of citizens
(who are also voters)....
This connects back to the earlier conversations we had about
#LeftAccelerationism - where is our agency as artists.
I am still struck by my experience of meeting with the Warnayaka Art
Centre crew - and an integrated vision of culture, where image-making,
law, language and knowledge is daily renewed (and audited) by many many
many people in the community.
On 03/07/16 10:52, Joseph Young wrote:
Thanks for starting this important thread...
The key to this is changing the narrative and placing the blame for
the current position squarely on our (successive) right-wing
governments and their failed and unnecessary austerity policies.
Whatever "European" artwork is produced has to concentrate on
challenging the dominant narratives that have allowed UKIP et al to
convince post industrial working class communities that the EU is to
blame rather than their own government.
*Joseph Young*
*Artist : Activist : Cultural Producer*
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On 3 Jul 2016, at 11:13, ruth catlow <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Steven and Anita, for initiating this conversation.
I, like many people I have spoken to over the last week (including
our many European friends and colleagues in the UK and on the
continent) have found this last week very distressing.
The referendum promoted a narrative, supported in ALL mainstream
media, (not just in the UK it seems, but across Europe)... that
characterizes the British people, and especially the English, as
wannabe-again-Imperialists, and (depending on their class) either
dumb, uneducated and racist; or hubristic Neoliberal muppets.
This narrative is now amplified (and seemingly proved) by an upsurge
of street-level racism and hostility towards our neighbours from
Germany, Poland, Greece, Romania etc who have enriched our lives by
making theirs in the UK.
Before the referendum, I found myself uneasy about actually
campaigning for Remain in spite of my desire for pan-European
peoples' alliance- because I couldn't ally myself with the dominating
political arguments proposed by the Tories (and backed up by
big-business and the establishment), and didn't want to participate
in a process that further stamped on the dignity of people in the UK
who are already so disenfranchised by the effects of austerity cuts
(and many years of other systemic injustices). The social-liberal
<http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/02/march-for-europe-eu-referendum-london-protest>
layer in the UK is now finding its voice, but the reporting of the
protests reinforces the Leave-voter caricatures.
So I am looking for better information. Here's some
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/regime-change-in-britains-labour-party-the-ashcroft-opinion-poll-is-this-why-jeremy-corbyn-must-go/5533742>
A UCL study has shown that the poorest 20% of British workers have
indeed been affected adversely by immigration...
[nevertheless]....Asked which of the following they considered to be
forces for good, a considerable proportion of leave voters expressed
support for multi-culturalism (29%), social liberalism (32%),
globalisation (49%), the green movement (38%), feminism (40%) and
even immigration (21%). About half of the voters, whether leave or
remain, felt capitalism was a force for ill rather than a force for
good (51%:49%).
Whatever we do, I think we need to build solidarity with other people
who are suffering the effects (and they are many) of the bank crisis
and resulting austerity politics.
Respect,
Ruth
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http://www.furtherfield.org/rcatlow/rethinking_wargames/
On 02/07/16 19:19, Steven Ball wrote:
I’m posting this to following a brief conversation with Anita McKeown, Ruth,
and Marc.
The ramifications for life in the UK after the EU referendum are still very
unclear. Parliamentary politics is in meltdown and the direction of travel for
future government seems to be further right, the economy is looking precarious,
meanwhile a toxic wave of overt public racist violence is spreading across the
country. It is tempting to think that we are entering a disturbingly illiberal
dystopia. Artists cannot sit by or remain in a bubble while this happens, the
necessity of responding to this situation is urgent, but what can we do, what
are we doing?
The purpose of this discussion is twofold:
- Firstly and most simply to make connections, to share information about what
we are doing in response as part of our practice, to share news and information
of any exhibitions or opportunities to produce public responses to the current
situation.
- Secondly to speculate how we might produce and present work that responds to
the current situation, what is the nature of that work, who does it address,
and where will it be exhibited.
We invite and welcome your action, thoughts, and ideas.
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