Event overview
The aesthetic and social productions of artist-groups have often been taken to envisage or embody radical alternatives to Western capitalist normality.
Drawing upon his research on post-punk artschool bands, queer performance collectives, and feminist curatorial groups, Professor Gavin Butt will reflect on the world-making potential of informal artist groupings in the UK from the dying days of Welfarism in the 1970s, to the changed circumstances of neoliberal austerity culture today.
What are the limits and possibilities of collective creation between artists? How might working as a group break down boundaries between disciplines, institutions, genders, and of class? And how has ensemble working been productive of new forms of relation, and of aesthetic form?
This lecture returns to the creative and political example that post-punk bands suggested to Butt upon his entry to artschool from a working-class background in the mid-1980s.
As he celebrates his Professorship, Gavin Butt looks back on this moment and reflects on how things have changed for prospective working-class students considering studying the arts today.
This talk is free to attend, open to all, and followed by a drinks reception.
Dates & times
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13 Jun 2016 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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