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Sounding the Word
Chapter 3, ‘Sounding the Word’, addresses the verbal arts, both oral and written. What are the sources of the power and precision of words? How is a...
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Looking Beyond the Frame
Chapter 8, ‘Looking beyond the Frame’ asks what practical effects the arts can or should have on our understanding of the world and on how we lead...
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Seeing Through Conventions
Chapter 6, ‘Seeing Through Conventions’, examines how all artistic representation is governed by conventions—material, ideological or thematic—which...
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Interdisciplinarity and Musicology in Higher Degree Research
My time as a Higher Degree Research (HDR) student was typical of twenty-first-century arts and humanities research training, in the sense that I was...
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Cultures of Work, the Neoliberal Environment, and Music in Higher Education
Music teaching, research, and scholarship in higher education is experiencing unprecedented change that is attributed to neoliberalism. Music...
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Recovering Musicology as a Public Service in the Neoliberal University: Obstacles, Obligations and Opportunities
Just what is the point of musicological research? Increasingly, it seems this is a question that is being answered definitively outside the walls of...
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Design as an Interesting Phenomenon: George Mallen and the Royal College of Art
The chapter traces the story of George Mallen’sMallen, George time at the RCA from 1971 to 1983, asking what Mallen brought to the pioneering...
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Art, Cybernetics and Social Intervention: An Interview Between Stephen Willats and George Mallen
This chapter reproduces an interview from 2005 between George MallenMallen, George and his long-term friend and sometime collaborator, artist Stephen...
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A Major Step Forward: The Computer Arts Society and Event One
This chapter describes the origins of the Computer Arts Society, the first practitioner-led group of its kind in the UK and details the support,...
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Testimony and Relation: The Purpose of Proletarian Realism
This chapter analyses the category of ‘life’ as mobilised by proletarian writing, and through this analysis explores proletarian realism’s relation...
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Doing the Work: Audre Lorde’s Warrior-Academics
This chapter provides an instructive example of work’s emptying out after the defeats of the 1970s: Audre Lorde’s invention of ‘the work’. This...
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Reflective Portfolio: “Scattered Memories of a Distorted Future”
Collaboration in creating artworks has always been my concern. I studied cinema at the Art University of Tehran, and the first thing that I learned...
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White-Collar Labour and Its Discontents: Jackson Pollock’s DIY
This chapter explores Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings in the context of changing US labour practices. Pollock’s technique is the result, in part, of...
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Atlas de La Manche/“Qu’on est loin des Amériques”: A Collaboration Between Photographers and Geographers
This collective text aims to describe and re-contextualise an experiment which took place in the specific territory of Normandy, France, between...
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Bootle, Art in Action and Pass the Valium Martha: On Community Photobooks and Positive Self-Expression
This chapter contextualises the community art photobook Art in Action (1980) and studies how it broke with the more overtly politicised model...
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The Future of Photography and Collaboration in Education: Co-creating with Civil Intent
In this chapter we argue that a photography education that seeks to provide critical perspectives on the ethics and politics of collaboration and...
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Kunst: Mode?
Mit ‚Mode‘ wird üblicherweise mehr als nur ein besonderer Fall ‚angewandter Kunst‘ angesprochen, der sich auf Kleidung und vielleicht auch auf...
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Radikale Umwertung: Independent Group
Wenig überraschend kommt die erste grundsätzliche und ausgeweitete Betrachtung zeitgenössischer populärer Artefakte demnach aus dem Kreis moderner...
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Lob des ‚populären‘ Genres
Wichtig für die Geschichte der Einschätzungen zum Populären sind Betrachtungen zu einzelnen Genres, wenn sie auch oder gerade Genres zur Kunst...