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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.
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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.
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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
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Eastwards
Ho! A New Urban Frontier? A series of films addressing conflicts over urban space, regeneration
and privatisation.
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THE
ASSAULT ON CULTURE: A Mute Magazine talk on privatisation and
critical artistic practice.
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Overidentification
and/or Bust?
Public discussion with Stevphen Shukaitis on issues raised by the
publication: 'Cultural Activism Today - The Art of Over-Identification'
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Everyone's at
it!
The Rentier Economy and the Morality of the Cultural Industries
A talk by Jeremy Valentine
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Art in the Age of Competitive Cultural Nationalism
Discussion event
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Privatising Culture : A One-Day Symposium
on the publication of the draft Culture (Scotland) Bill
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Occasional Documents: Towards Situation, Howard Slater
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| Dialogical Aesthetics: A Critical Framework For Littoral Art, Grant Kester |
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For the month of August 2010 - two Variant pub-table discussions on issues arising out of two articles in the current issue:
The Doublet (upstairs bar)
74, Park Rd, Glasgow, G4 9JF
U - Kelvinbridge
5.30pm to 7.30pm, then other topics
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Wednesday 4th August - with Gesa Helms
Doodley-doo? Doodley don't!
Life and Sabotage
Gesa Helms
"There are two lines of enquiry for this review (of an admittedly rather unimportant book, Claire Faÿ's The Doodle Notebook. How to Waste Time in the Office, that has already received far more than its fair share of coverage):
a. what kind of practices are proposed "to take on the daily grind"?
b. who can propose such practices and who can engage in them?
Following these two lines, I want to critically engage doodling in a debate over work-place agency, resistance and sabotage; to draw out the limitations constructed for creative office workers; and provide a couple of openings to raise implications for a politics on work, autonomy, subversion if we were to arm ourselves with a bit of stationery."
Full text here: http://www.variant.org.uk/37texts/7Doodley.html
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Thursday 19th August - with Owen Logan
"Art Workers Won't Kiss Ass"
Owen Logan
Taking the Chicago-based art collective Temporary Services' "A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ABOUT ART LABOUR AND ECONOMICS" as his starting point, Logan "wonders if the last great avant-garde idea of collapsing art into life is not a double-edged sword, curtailing strategy and tactical thinking while advancing a more pleasurable politics of expression." This Logan informs with Understanding Social Welfare Movements - Annetts, Law, McNeish & Mooney's 'argumentative and lively' book - which "reading against the grain of some aspects of social movement discourse gives a good sense of a new Left-leaning social aesthetics that is gregarious but not necessarily collective in any substantial sense."
Full text here: http://www.variant.org.uk/37texts/8comment37.html
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PLEASE NOTE:
These will be small, fairly informal sessions and, as I'm sure you'll appreciate, we'll have to squeeze everyone around a couple of tables, so please let us know if you are coming along (and to which one) by dropping us an email to <variantmag@btinternet.com> so we can get a sense of numbers. And I suspect folk will be hanging around for more informal chat afterwards if anyone just wants to pop their head in later in the evening.
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