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| October Workshop @ Transmission - invitation to participate towards understanding our conditions of 'doing'. |
| From Funding To Franchise (Workshop) - What does the end of Flexible Funding mean for artist-run spaces in Scotland? |
| Variant pub-table discussions, December 2010 beneath the crazy paving... urban governance & 'in-between' spaces |
| "MASHING UP" : Art+Labour a public conversation Panelists: Angela McRobbie, Scottish Artists Union, Graham Jeffery, Katarzyna Kosmala, Gesa Helms, Brett Bloom, Owen Logan; facilitated by Gordon Asher LOANS & INTERNSHIPS WORKSHOP Art+Labour LINKS |
| Variant pub-table discussions, August 2010 Doodley-doo? Doodley don't! Life and Sabotage, Gesa Helms "Art Workers Won't Kiss Ass", Owen Logan |
| What's Left in Feminism? Maud Bracke,Catherine Eschle, Ailsa McKay, Marina Vishmidt...respond to Nancy Fraser's 'Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History' chaired by Eleanor Gordon |
| Imaginal Machines Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life Stevphen Shukaitis |
| The harnessing of creativity for urban growth agendas... or, doing differently. re:public exhibition at TBG&S, Dublin |
| Poverty Advocacy & Action Chik Collins, University of the West of Scotland, and Clydebank Independent Resource Centre: 'To Bankers from Bankies - Incapacity Benefit: Myth and Reality'. Gesa Helms, University of Glasgow: 'Beyond Aspiration: Young People and decent work in the de-industrialised city, Discussion paper', June 2009. |
| COMPETITIVE
EDGES Symposium
: Culture, Nationalism & Migration A vital opportunity to historically locate contemporary cultural trends and to situate the politics and discourse of diversity in a comparative international context; to examine cultural policies in the context of uneven development and the phenomenal rise of the speculative international economy. |
| THE
ASSAULT ON CULTURE II Following the Mute-organised discussion, Variant continue the exploration of the perils and opportunities for critical cultural activity in neoliberalising institutions. |
| RESISTING
REGENICIDE : STRUGGLES IN THE CITY Discussions with representatives of community & activist groups groups from Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Manchester on community-based engagement in the planning processes of urban regeneration. |
| 60th Anniversary of Human Rights Declaration discussion A panel discussion at Document 6 : International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival |
| Eastwards
Ho! A New Urban Frontier? A series of films addressing conflicts over urban space, regeneration and privatisation. |
| THE
ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and critical artistic practice. |
| Overidentification
and/or Bust? Public discussion with Stevphen Shukaitis on issues raised by the publication: 'Cultural Activism Today - The Art of Over-Identification' |
| Everyone's at
it! The Rentier Economy and the Morality of the Cultural Industries A talk by Jeremy Valentine |
| Art in the Age of Competitive Cultural Nationalism Discussion event |
| Privatising Culture : A One-Day Symposium on the publication of the draft Culture (Scotland) Bill |
| Occasional Documents: Towards Situation, Howard Slater |
| Dialogical Aesthetics: A Critical Framework For Littoral Art, Grant Kester |
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