Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse is a podcast presented by Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly which presents fortnightly discussions about cultural democracy.
Read MoreVid Simoniti is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, where he leads the MA programme in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions.
Read MoreStephen Pritchard explores how activist art and radical social praxis might create spaces for acts of resistance and liberation. His research particularly focuses on interventions which support movements that oppose gentrification, displacement and corporate capitalism and seek creative new approaches to developing radical socialist democracies.
Read MoreMirjam Bayerdörfer is an artist.
Read MoreRosalie Schweiker is a conceptual artist who uses social exchanges such as conversations, economic transactions and jokes to find new functions for art in society.
Read MoreMarc James Léger is an independent scholar living in Montreal. He is editor of The Idea of the Avant Garde - And What It Means Today and author of Brave New Avant Garde, The Neoliberal Undead, Drive in Cinema and Don't Network.
Read MoreJody Wood is an artist based in New York City.
“I am intrigued by interpersonal relationships – how they form, how they dissolve, and their delicate underpinnings. I approach my artwork as an opportunity to explore this fascination, and consequently have moved increasingly toward working directly with members of the public. Through my continuing investigation of private needs and public expectations, my work presents a dialogue between the external battles we must face and the internal landscape we need to preserve.”
Read MoreEmma Jayne Park is a dancer, theatre-maker, collaborator and micro-activist. Her practice asks audiences to engage through questioning their own role in the performance, role in the conversation and role in society through the socio-political performance she creates, workshops she delivers and events she facilitates. Branding herself Cultured Mongrel is an honest reflection of her multifaceted practice and broad curiosity which explores approaches united by the common value set that underpins all of her work.
Read MoreElpida Rikou studied sociology, anthropology, social psychology and art in Athens and Paris. Her research mainly concerns the social representations of space, illness and death, the body and contemporary art practices. After teaching at universities of Crete, Thessaly and Athens, she is currently teacher of Anthropology of Art at Athens School of Fine Arts.
Read MoreAn independent charity committed to providing a platform to support artists and profile what they do. Social Art Library is an Axis project.
Read MoreAnthony Schrag is a Scottish artist and academic whose work and research examines participatory practices in art.
Read MoreFrancois Matarasso is a community arts worker, writer and researcher based in the UK.
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Read MoreAnne Douglas is an Emeritus Professor at Robert Gordon University. Her research over the past twenty-two years has been two fold. First she has evolved approaches to practice led research, doctoral and postdoctoral, through the visual arts. Secondly she has focused on the place of the arts in public life, increasingly in the field of art and ecology, working with constructs such as improvisation and leadership.
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