FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Mark Aerial Waller, still from Phantom Avantgarde, 2010.  Courtesy of the artist and LUX.	SCREENING: What it is Not:  Ed Atkins | David Raymond Conroy Mark Leckey | Laure Prouvost | James Richards & Mark Aerial Waller Thursday 5 May | 6.30 - 8.30pm A LUX touring programme bringing together new video works by UK based artists. Prior to the screening there will be a performance by David Raymond Conroy. FREE but please RSVP to pippa@s1artspace.org to secure a place
What it is Not brings together a selection of new works by UK-based artists. Against the new as a merely contemporary form of visibility, the works in this programme consistently interrogate these terms, their own guises, structures and language. This presentation of their means of representation acts to displace the works' own logic. Here reference is reflexive, a sort contrapuntal relation between form and deformation, past and present. Both product of labour and autonomous object, the new work is and is not the thing-in-itself. The new is, in this sense, negative, a duplicitous and illusory new, gone as soon as it is discerned. Please visit LUX for further details. What it is Not is curated by Gil Leung for LUX. Gil Leung is Distribution Manager at LUX and editor of VERSUCH.
	SYMPOSIUM: RaRa Symposium: Just Do(ing) It: Artist-led and self-organised cultural activity as resistance to Capitalism. Speakers include:  John Holloway, Leeds Creative Timebank, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Milena Placentile and Gregory Sholette.   Saturday 14 May | 11am - 6pm
Building on previous RadicalAesthetics-RadicalArt (RaRa) events that have focused on the theoretical and socio-political landscape of a radical (art) praxis, this event in an artists'-led space in SHEFFIELD continues the exploration of strategies, tactics and work being carried out on the ground‚ by artists and cultural activists towards a better world. How might we begin to understand artist-led or self-organised art activity in this light? What examples of DIY, informal or purposefully marginal art practices exist which aim to imagine, create, or operate within new spheres for cultural activity? How do such practices resist and/or maintain a critical relationship with the dominant order and state capitalism? How does the empty but increasingly inescapable rhetoric of Cameron‚s Big Society‚ effect or alter the stakes of such practice? What role do practices of subversion operating within and against‚ the system play in this struggle? This one-day event - initiated by Andy Abbott (Black Dogs and University of Leeds), Jane Tormey/Gillian Whiteley (Loughborough University) and S1 Studios - aims to provide a space for discussion, critical reflection and evaluation of such questions and tactics through the example of current practice and writers on the subject. Cost : £5 and £3 (students and concessions). Lunch and refreshments will be provided by S1 Studios (for a small donation in support of the studios) ADVANCE BOOKING is ESSENTIAL - to book a place please email Emma Nadin - E.L.Nadin@boro.ac.uk
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