IMPLICATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS: EXPLORING ART AND CREATIVITY BEYOND MARKET AND STATE
with Jon Davies
Reading/Discussion Group for the Essay (Link below)
23 - July - 2020 7H30 pm (CEST / Berlin), 6H30 pm (BST / London, Liverpool)
This online reading and discussion group is to share thoughts and work through ideas raised in the essay Implications of Institutions – exploring art and creativity beyond market and state, together with its author Jon Davies.
We are curious to hear your reactions, thoughts that are sparked by the text, and your deliberations on the various outlined questions that challenge art institutions and the role and organization of art and creative work in that context – in light of the Coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter movement. Through exchange, we hope to all learn from each others perspectives, and to share thoughts on how to move on from here as creative individuals and communities.
The essay is written in a UK context – How do you see the situation in other localities where you may be residing currently? What is left of society outside the state and according neoliberal agendas – and can art be a way to reimagine our lives in an „outside“ space? Which ways do you see for organizing ourselves as creative and interdependent communities? How do we want to take responsibility for a world that is not based on the exploitation of some for the well-being of others? Do we aim to change the institutions or abolish them altogether – and then what next?
We’d like to keep the discussion quite open to what participants would like to share and bring in – so the list of questions is definitely open for your additions, related to Jon’s essay.
All participants should have read the essay before the meeting.
To participate, please register here: collective.practices@acudmachtneu.de. We are looking towards a group of 15 people.
READ THE ESSAY HERE
ABOUT
"Originally this essay was to expand on the current discourse in the arts on ‘Interdependence,’ however in light of Coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter movement my focus has changed to examining our relationship to the socioeconomic field of creativity. In this essay I explore the recent history of market-state dynamics in the arts in the UK, and how the institutions that are gatekeepers limit and obstruct artmaking as a way of reimagining our lives."
Jon Davies
Based in Liverpool, Jon Davies is a producer under the alias Kepla, journalist, events organiser, and researcher. He has written about the relationship between politics, arts and music for FACT, Dazed, The Skinny and is currently a reviews contributer for The Wire.
Jon began writing for local magazines and hosted DIY events in Liverpool in 2009, and since then has been championing culture from small cities in the north of the UK, as well as participating in the discourse of art making outside of a capital city. In his 10 years living in Liverpool he has helped organise platforms for public discourse, from discussing the Desire for Safer Spaces, Anxiety of the Art World, to hosting a workshop series on utopian thinking as part of The Liverpool Biennial. In 2017 Jon completed his postgraduate research diploma at the University of Liverpool, writing on underground music in relation to emerging digital interfaces and networks, leading him to present his talk ‘What Does It Mean To Be Underground in 2018?’ at Rewire Festival.
Last year Jon wrote two articles around the theme of Interdependence, first for CTM festival, and then for FACT Magazine, looking at how emerging practices in digital, globally dispersed scenes have reshaped what we think of as community. Simultaneously Jon is interested in local specificities of music communities and how they work in concert with globalised scenes.
Producing music as Kepla, Jon has worked with numerous interdisciplinary artists including DeForrest Brown, Jr. (Speaker Music), Jade Montserrat, and Nathan Jones. Last year Alien Jams released his first solo album, Within The Gaze, A Shadhavar.
He is currently working at Metal Culture, an arts organisation located in Liverpool, working directly with surrounding communities to host artist residency programmes, workshops and community-focused events for low income households. He is also a volunteer for Granby Four Streets, a community land trust based in Toxteth.
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