Applied Live Art – A Social Practice Studio

Creating art works around co-authorship, collaboration, psychogeography, and wellbeing.

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Honoured to have written the Forwor to this must r

Honoured to have written the Forwor to this must read: From Network to Meshwork
https://www.axisweb.org/models-of-validation/content/from-network-to-meshwork/

"details the five interlocking issues ... the difficulty of articulating social practice, its definitions, values and roles; unrealistic and/or unreasonable expectations from project partners; lack of infrastructural support for social projects and the perceived second-class status of social practice in the art world—and some possible solutions..."

Powerful work by @amandaravetz @research_artist @axisweb Axisweb #socialartuk #socialpractice

Back in action! New opening date 5th December 2020

Back in action! New opening date 5th December 2020 to 14 March 2021

From Birth Til' Death: Scrolled Life Stories at @hornimanmuseumgardens an immersive installation of payprus scrolls telling a visual life story of the beautifully diverse people living in South #London. Created with @artsnetworkldn @stchrishospice and other community partners.

www.horniman.ac.uk/event/from-birth-til-death-scrolled-life-stories/

Enjoy all the street art and billboard interventio

Enjoy all the street art and billboard interventions during this era. Instead of locking down it feels like people are waking up to the power of solidarity #graffiti #lockdown #pandemic #community #socialart

Joining a group to 12 cultural producers as part o

Joining a group to 12 cultural producers as part of a peer support training programme to consider how we RESET CULTURE in the UK. Stay tuned as I feedback the learnings to everyone. Led by Claire Doherty and David Micklem #culturereset

Scrolled Life Stories: How to Speak About Life and

Scrolled Life Stories: How to Speak About Life and Death When Both Are So Close is an article about work that explores the visibility of those in the margins of society for my upcoming exhibition at #hornimanmuseum #lifeanddeath #art #lifestories
Read it here: http://www.barbedwirefever.com/blog/2020/6/10/scrolled-life-stories-how-to-speak-about-life-and-death-when-both-are-so-close

Presenting a second outdoor arts symposium session

Presenting a second outdoor arts symposium session about public art, performance intervention, and care for Surge Scotland @SurgeScotland register here: https://neilbutler.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3b2e98458c6cabd9a74e00e30&id=1eadaa5a7f&e=c1bc18636f #outdoorarts #pandemicaftercare #socialpractice #publicart

Have programmed monthly Social Art Network London

Have programmed monthly Social Art Network London meetups through 2020 which are being broadcast on to YouTube live! With guest speakers, performances, and readings across topics like building history, allyship, queering spaces, radical imagination and more. #sanldn #socialart #socialpractice #socialartnetwork
LINK www.socialartnetwork.org/meetups/london

Recorded a podcast for Live Out Loud on the New Wo

Recorded a podcast for Live Out Loud on the New World Order post-pandemic. Consider this: Ancient Greek pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public” (pan: ‘all, every’; peh 'to protect, shepherd'; dêmos, 'the common people; free citizens, sovereign people' How can we reframe society through this crises to create a more equitable and humane world? #pandemic #podcast #appliedliveart #newworldorder

Back on insta after a break, was feeling overwhelm

Back on insta after a break, was feeling overwhelmed with a sense of urgency in understanding the best ways to respond, as a socially engaged artist, to the constant crises we live through. Felt like making announcements of my response work was egotistical. But now I'm growing into a new consideration of shared knowledge, shared resources and shared lived experience of the times we live in through social media. Even if Facebook is just harvesting our data for profit! The image is a scan of my eyeball which I thought was relevant for entering into new perspectives.... And new glasses.

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