For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet

Project
 

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This project is a collaboration between Radar and Loughborough University’s Dr Gillian Whiteley and Dr Jane Tormey, RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa), bringing together research in to the radical traditions of the political pamphlet and contemporary art practice.

We are delighted to be working with artists and collectives Ruth Beale, Freee, Ferenc Gróf, Patrick Goddard, LIttle Riot Press, Ciara Phillips and Rory Pilgrim.

Comprising a two day public event and the production of a new book: Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer (published part of the RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa) book series with Bloomsbury) For and Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet is a two-day research and public ‘festival’ event responding to research into the political pamphlet and exploring the relevance of the pamphlet for contemporary art practice.

Public Symposium – 11am – 5pm BOOK HERE
Friday 26 May, 2017
Fearon Hall, Rectory Road, Loughborough LE11 1PL

This event includes presentation, performances and rants. Artist-taxi-driver, Mark McGowan provides a keynote presentation and is followed by offerings from Ruth Beale, Tim Brennan, Dean Brannagan, Shirley Cameron, Ben Campkin, Chiara Dellerba, Andrea Gibson, Joanne Lee, radical rethink, Rebecca Ross, Miffy Ryan, Evelyn Silver, Jane Tormey, Mo White, Gillian Whiteley and Andrew Wilson

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The Art of the Pamphlet – Exhibition Launch, 6 – 7pm
Friday 26 May, 2017
Charnwood Museum

This exhibition, curated by Gillian Whitely, explores the local, private and public collections of pamphlets, their visual rhetoric, materiality, reproducibility and the ways in which they lend themselves to topicality.

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Pamphlet Day! – 11am – 3pm
Saturday 27 May, 2017

Charnwood Museum, Loughborough Library,
Queens Park, Loughborough Market Place

This day-long event takes place across sites including Charnwood Museum, Loughborough Library, Queens Park, Loughborough’s award winning market and Mubu Hair. It will involve live performative elements by artists commissioned by Radar and a ‘market’ of stalls where public participation in the making of new pamphlets, zines and protest paraphernalia is actively encouraged. Join us!

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To see the full programme for all events, please click here.


The radical roots of the pamphlet and art: For Orwell, the pamphlet is a polemical provocation. Protest and dissent, as demonstrated in performative and/or visual polemical forms are typified by the tradition of the pamphlet. The pamphlet thereby provides a means to examine possibilities for advocacy, protest and prefiguration shared by different disciplinary fields. The Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer project proposes that the format and traditions of the ‘radical pamphlet’ may provide an alternative platform for artistic intervention and provocation.

‘It is written because there is something that one wants to say now, and one believes there is no other way of getting a hearing. Pamphlets may turn on points of ethics or theology but they always have a clear political implication. A pamphlet may be written either for or against somebody or something, but in essence it is always a protest.’
George Orwell in British Pamphleteers Volume 1, From the 16th century to the French Revolution, London, 1948

About RadicalAestheticsRadicalArt (RaRa): The RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa) project explores the meeting of contemporary art practice and interpretations of radicality to promote debate, confront convention and formulate alternative ways of thinking about art practice. The project has examined the intersection of philosophical ideas, art practices and aesthetics – in particular, their relationship to sensation, discourse, ethics, politics, activism, community, participation and collaboration.


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