Discussion: Assault on Culture III

Start: 26/04/2009 - 1:00pm
End: 26/04/2009 - 3:00pm
Timezone: Etc/GMT
URL: www.fact.co.uk/whatson/detail/?infoID=3921632170973208621

Discussion: Assault on Culture III
26 April 1.00pm
 Location: Gallery 1
It's Not Easy Being Green - Screening and Discussion Series
Mute Magazine Contributing Editor Anthony Iles revisits the magazine's climate change issue – Mute Vol 2, No.5 ‘It's Not Easy Being Green', from May 2007 - to update it in light of changing perspectives on finance, capital and current affairs. Iles will curate a discussion and screening series that runs throughout the exhibition, in FACT's experimental Gallery 1 space built specially for Climate for Change from recycled materials.
In this third part in a series of discussions initiated by Mute and Variant magazines questions the existing framework for independent cultural practitioners. Does commercialisation enhance or corrode 'critical' culture? Why does an institutional turn to 'openness', collaborative and politicised art practices coincide with privatisation? How will the financial crisis impact on arts funding and cultural practice and what would be a 'sustainable' alternative? With panellists: Leigh French (Variant), Anthony Davies (Writer), David Jacques (artist), Ritchie Hunter (The Nerve). Chair: Josephine Berry Slater (Mute)