Recessional Aesthetics
  

It is certain that we are all currently engaging in personal and sometime public conversations around the arts and the cuts and what to do in the face of the dramatic changes that are in motion. We are witnessing different strategies of mobilisation across the breadth of cultural production and we know that the arts are not alone, the public sector as a whole is to be cut and as such we all have different questions and pressures we are asking of ourselves on fundamental levels.

In this light this event is proposed as a frame for exchange at James Taylor Gallery. As you may know James Taylor Gallery is not a traditional gallery space, it is best described as an artist occupation of a 25,000 sq foot space in the East End awaiting finance for its planning permission for conversion to luxury flats. In the meantime the gallery is an artist run live work space that sites exhibitions whilst facing a rolling 2 month notice of eviction. We felt this a fitting space for discourse combining a vast space, the gallery,s fragility, and the context of a group exhibition that will not only stretch over the Government announcement of the cuts – but also the weekend of Frieze.

This invitation is to attend and participate in Recessional Aesthetics; a durational, discursive event produced, staged, and facilitated by the context of the space and the conditions of our present moment. This will take place on Sunday 17th October from 2pm – 12 pm and is to be sited around a long dining table, a cross between a commune (communal) dining hall and a (bourgeoise) banqueting dinner. Around this table on the hour different thinkers and makers will open a discussion in relation to the economic, political, and social implication of the forthcoming cuts. Whilst different individuals will lead each hour according to a schedule – the forms of such a participation are free and may take the form of people / collectives conversing, cinematic interventions, readings, or performed works. Time keeping will be upheld by sonic interruptions on the hour from the series “workers playtime” in homage to the radio series started in 1941 “to keep up the morale of the workers”. Throughout the questions raised will include how we are working in the Arts?, how have we worked?, and how are we expected to work? So the day will act as a durational discursive event, a coming together of individuals as part of a collectivity operating in the threshold of the public and the private, an image, a staging and an active discussion.

Your discourse is welcome. You are free to sit down, eat, and to join the discussion. We ask only that you bring a food offering for the table.

… a thought must be coarse to find its way into action. Bertolt Brecht

Confirmed participants to date include: Lutz Becker, William Cobbing, The Carrot workers Collective. Edward Dorian, Stefano Harney, The James Taylor Gallery, Alana Jelinik, Dean Kenning, no.w.here, Sarah Sparkes, Sandra Sykorova, The Artist,s Lottery Syndicate, Claire Tancons, William Raban, Oliver Rees, Maxa Zoller, David Graeber, Matthew Stone, Dean Kenning and Rachel Pimm. A full list will be announced at both the James Taylor Gallery Private View and on the following websites on the 15th October:

 

Sunday – 17th of October
no.w.here www.no-w-here.org.uk
James Taylor Gallery www.jtg.org.uk

  
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