Category Archives: CRITICAL STUDIES

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES

Fisher: Capitalist Realism Pt.1

[SYMPOSIUM] BOOK CLUB
#25 Mark Fisher: Capitalist Realism Pt.1

Friday, 9 March 2018, 6:30pm-9pm
The Field 385 Queen’s Rd London SE14 5HD
Closest stations: New Cross Gate, Queens Road
Facilitated by Sophia Kosmaoglou
Suggested donation £2, booking via Eventbrite

In March we’re back at The Field for the first in a series of book clubs on Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, starting with chapters 1-3 (pages 1-20). The book is 81 pages long and we can read it in 3-4 installments, something to decide at the end of the first session. The link below will take you to a PDF of the entire book. We will continue the series with chapters 4 & 5 on 11 May 2018, unless another proposal takes precedence. If you would like to facilitate any of the sessions please get in touch. Continue reading Fisher: Capitalist Realism Pt.1 →

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES, EVENTS

Marx: The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret

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#15 Marx: Fetishism of the Commodity

Friday, 10 February 2017, 18:00 – 20:30
Wimbledon Art Studios, 10 Riverside Rd, London SW17 0BB
Rail/Underground: Earlsfield, Tooting Broadway
Chaired by Sophia Kosmaoglou
Free, please book your place

In February we’re reading The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret, from Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, first published 1867 in Hamburg. Continue reading Marx: The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret →

COURSES, CRITICAL STUDIES, NEWS, PEDAGOGY, REVIEWS, STUDIO PRACTICE

The Trickle-Down Syndrome

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The Trickle-Down Syndrome

Benedict Drew [2017] The Trickle-Down Syndrome. Installation view. Whitechapel Gallery, London. Photo Sophia Kosmaoglou.
Benedict Drew [2017] The Trickle-Down Syndrome. Installation view. Whitechapel Gallery, London. Photo Sophia Kosmaoglou.

We visited Benedict Drew‘s exhibition The Trickle-Down Syndrome at the Whitechapel Gallery with students on the Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice course. The exhibition was a sprawling interconnected array of objects, banners, screens, cables and digital components. What is the Trickle-Down Syndrome? How does it relate to the infamous laissez faire economic theory? What are the throbbing fleshy forms and knobbly knotted represented in videos, banners and roughly-hewn objects? Continue reading The Trickle-Down Syndrome →

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES

Adorno: Commitment

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#21 Adorno: Commitment

Friday, 10 November 2017, 6:30pm-9pm
LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 1ES
Closest stations: Whitechapel / Aldgate East
Facilitated by Nat Pimlott
Suggested donation £2

DOWNLOAD Adorno, Theodor W. (1977/1962). Commitment. In Aesthetics and Politics, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Georg Lukacs. London: Verso, pp. 177-195. Continue reading Adorno: Commitment →

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES

Foucault: Of Other Spaces

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#20 Foucault: Of Other Spaces

Sunday, 15 October 2017, 1:30pm – 4:00pm
Yurt Café, St. Katharine’s Precinct, 2 Butcher Row, London E14 8DS
Nearest Station: Limehouse
Facilitated by Dasha Loyko
Free, booking via Eventbrite

This book club will take place on Unison, a lifeboat-turned-project-space. We will meet at Yurt Café, located next to Limehouse station, between 1:30pm and 2pm and walk to the boat moored nearby. Continue reading Foucault: Of Other Spaces →

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES, EVENTS, PEDAGOGY

ART&CRITIQUE (2015-2019)

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ART&CRITIQUE was a peer-led and volunteer-run alternative art education network dedicated to critical engagement with art practice, theory and research. It was founded in November 2015 and based at The Field and LARC. We employed collaborative, co-operative and collective models of pedagogy and organisation and fostered alternative models of art education in a series of public events. Looking for the Art+Critique course instead?

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ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES, EVENTS, WORKSHOPS

Critiquing the Crit

Critiquing the Crit
A Workshop with Sophie Barr

Saturday, 19 November 2016, 1pm – 4pm
The Field 385 Queens Road, London SE14 5HD
Rail/Overground: New Cross Gate, Queens Road Peckham

This three-hour workshop is designed to help you to get the most out of your group critique by taking ownership of your feedback. During the workshop you will consider the most important aspects of giving and receiving feedback/criticism and you will have the opportunity to design and test your own crit model for future use. Continue reading Critiquing the Crit →

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, CRITICAL STUDIES

Barthes: The Death of the Author

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#4 Barthes: The Death of the Author

Friday, 12 February 2016, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
The Field, 385 Queens Road, London SE14 5HD
Rail/Overground: New Cross Gate, Queens Road Peckham
Chaired by Henrietta Ross
Free, please book your place

Considering the reader, context, authority and authenticity this session will focus on Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay The Death of the Author: its influence on a contemporary understanding of cultural production and the role of the individual with in it. Continue reading Barthes: The Death of the Author →

COURSES, CRITICAL STUDIES, PEDAGOGY

Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice

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Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice

This course maps the theories and discourses that inform the production and reception of contemporary art, providing a supportive environment to develop your practice and articulate your ideas on the production, exhibition and interpretation of art.

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CRITICAL STUDIES, RESEARCH, RESOURCES

CTHEORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

CTHEORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

A comprehensive bibliography for the Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice lecture and seminar series. You can use it as a further reading list or to locate references that are not in the handouts. Please click the headings for a drop-down list.

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CRITICAL STUDIES, RESOURCES, STUDIO PRACTICE

ART PRACTICE & RESEARCH RESOURCES

ART PRACTICE & RESEARCH RESOURCES

A thematic list of resources for art practice and research, click the headings for a drop-down list. For a list of resources for curators please follow the link. Continue reading ART PRACTICE & RESEARCH RESOURCES →