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What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central
concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections
and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative
practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in practices
which might forge an alternative ethics in the age of
neoliberalism. Interdisciplinary and innovative, it brings together
contributions from artists, researchers and practitioners who
creatively consider how care can be practised in a range of
contexts, including environmental ethics, progressive pedagogies,
cultures of work, alternative economic models, death literacy
advocacy, parenting and mothering, deep listening, mental health,
disability and craftivism. Care Ethics and Art contributes new
modes of understanding these fields, together with practical
solutions and models of practice, while also offering new ways to
think about recent contemporary art and its social function. The
book will benefit scholars and postgraduate research students in
the fields of art, art history and theory, visual cultures,
philosophy and gender studies, as well as creative and arts
practitioners.
Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists
working at the intersection of art and design. The text focuses on
design practices, and conceptual approaches, which challenge the
traditional notion that design should emphasise its utility over
aesthetic or other non-functional considerations. This publication
brings to light emerging practices that consider the social,
political and aesthetic potential of "undesigning" our complex
designed world. In documenting these new developments, the book
highlights the overlaps with science, engineering, biotechnology
and hacktivism, which operate at the intersection of art and
design.
Undesign brings together leading artists, designers and theorists
working at the intersection of art and design. The text focuses on
design practices, and conceptual approaches, which challenge the
traditional notion that design should emphasise its utility over
aesthetic or other non-functional considerations. This publication
brings to light emerging practices that consider the social,
political and aesthetic potential of "undesigning" our complex
designed world. In documenting these new developments, the book
highlights the overlaps with science, engineering, biotechnology
and hacktivism, which operate at the intersection of art and
design.
This new and original book is a creative practice ethnography,
which navigates a spectrum where at one end the author works
closely with socially engaged artists as part of her ethnographic
research, and at the other she tries to find a critical distance to
write about their art projects and the institutional structures
that support their work, such as art schools and conferences.
Artists increasingly find themselves working in participatory
settings where skills in social engagement are as essential as
their creative skills. The author was involved in the field of
social practices from its early stages and stayed engaged with the
primary movers in the field for nearly two decades as a witness,
participant and critical observer. Her writing evokes the people
and places she discusses, and her writing style is personal and
accessible. Over the course of the book, readers are introduced to
artists and their work, and to the key debates and issues facing
this fast-growing and emergent field. The author navigates the
contradictions and paradoxes of this field of practice through
description and analysis and, importantly, gives voice to the
artists who are working to make art relevant in times of social and
political uncertainty. The problems addressed by social practices,
as well as their contradictions, very much reflect our troubled
political global moment. This book is a significant contribution to
the field - few people have followed the development of social
practices for as long as Coombs, and her dual perspective as an art
critic and anthropologist make her ideally placed to describe and
evaluate the institutions and practices. While there are many books
already in this growing field, the experimental and intensely
personal nature of this book sets it apart. It could be a useful
teaching tool to generate debate around the tensions and paradoxes
inherent in the field of social practices and politically engaged
art. Students will appreciate the author's attempt to convey what
it was really like to be there at certain key events and insights
gained from direct conversations with the artists, curators and
writers shaping the field. Relevant to academics working in, and
students studying, art and social practice, community arts
programmes, contemporary anthropology, cultural historians and
those with an interest in the sociology of art, protest or
activism. Will appeal to artists, writers and students interested
in the history of how social practices developed as a field through
its practitioners, discourse and lived experience.
Creative Practice Ethnographies focuses on the ways in which the
collaboration between creative practice and ethnography offers new
ways to think with and about the methods, practice and promise of
research in contemporary interdisciplinary contexts. How does
creative practice inform new ways of doing ethnography and vice
versa? What new forms of expression and engagement are made
possible as a result of these creative synergies? In sum, we pay
particular attention to ways of being in the world that
acknowledges creativity, complexities and multiplicities in
research. In this book we seek to map why the intersection of
ethnography and creative practice matters for doing socially
impactful research. This book is aimed at interdisciplinary
researchers from art, design, sociology, anthropology, games,
media, education, and cultural studies. As interdisciplinary
scholars with divergent creative practices who are constantly
engaged in, with, and through the field, we are continuously
searching through embodied practice ways of working with and
reconfiguring the means and modes through which we do research. As
such, our work operates at the intersection of ethnography and
creative practice and we examine how they coalesce, overlap and
interplay. In this book, we examine the doing of creative practice
ethnographies through three interdisciplinary
heuristics—techniques, translations and transmissions. It is via
learnings from the field, in the form of interdisciplinary case
studies, that we seek to provide insights into this productive
synergy.
Creative Practice Ethnographies focuses on the intersection of
creative practice and ethnography and offers new ways to think
about the methods, practice, and promise of research in
contemporary interdisciplinary contexts. How does creative practice
inform new ways of doing ethnography and vice versa? What new forms
of expression and engagement are made possible as a result of these
creative synergies? By addressing these questions, the authors
highlight the important roles that ethnography and creative
practice play in socially impactful research. This book is aimed at
interdisciplinary researchers, scholars, and students of art,
design, sociology, anthropology, games, media, education, and
cultural studies.
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