Cards annotated with participants’ handwriting, completed in the interactive phase of the Glass House exhibition/experience/event
Reviewing the impact and value of the September 2021 Glass House exhibition as an examination of art and policy and a case study of practice-based research
Read MoreAn interview with the artist Julia Weist who has explored the relationship between art and bureaucracy whilst working as an artist in residence in the New York City Government
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New York City Public Artist in Residence for 2022-23, Kameron Neal
An interview with Kameron Neal, a Brooklyn based artist who is working with the New York City government to reclaim and repurpose NYPD’s pervasive and invasive surveillance footage from the 1950s-90s.
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What can people involved in evidence and policy learn from a neon soaked arts-led entertainment space in the New Mexico desert? I visited Meow Wolf to find out.
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Interview with Janet Zweig, a New York based artist who is part of the NYC Public Artist in Residence programme and worked with the then Mayor’s Office for Sustainability, where a key contact was Kate Gouin, who also kindly made time for a discussion.
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Interspecies collaboration with Tomas Saraceno at The Shed gallery in New York
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Some notes from an impromptu visit to Kahlil Robert Irving’s show at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
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Interview with Melanie Crean, a New York based artist who is part of the NYC Public Artist in Residence programme, working at the intersection of architecture, criminal justice and shape.
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The cover art of Ursula La Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness by Alex Ebel. La Guin’s 1969 book is cited by a Heather Barnett, a research participant, as influential on issues relating to gender fluidity on a decadal timescale. Image credit: Alex Ebel/the Avocado
Artists and funders often ask how artwork can have a policy impact. This article sets out thoughts with reference to three scientific concepts: lability, transference and activation energy.
Read MoreThis article, the fourth in a series on the role of art in policymaking, situates real life artworks in a theoretical art-policy matrix. It starts by describing two case studies - Blue Planet II and The Museum of Extraordinary Objects - in more detail, before outlining nineteen other artworks, all which, in some way, link to policy.
Read MoreThis blog looks at how policies are made and what role art may play in that process, if any. It proposes an art-policy matrix, matching some of the effects of art to stages in the policy process.
Read MoreWhy would it even matter if art or culture had a role in policy? As a policymaker of 15 years experience (as well as being a practising visual artist), I acknowledge that this is something I take for granted. This blog attempts to dig a little deeper, and consider: what ‘policy’ actually is, the relationship between art/culture and policy; whether policy actually matters.
Read MoreThis blog explains the deep lying socioeconomic and technological trends which are changing how policy is made, and possibly opens up a need for art and culture to be used in policymaking.
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Images: Textile artwork from MITHILAsmita, displayed and described by Ihitashri Shandilya (top left); View out of window of Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire (top centre); Unsighted drawing of Eduardo Carvalho of Brazil’s Museum of Tomorrow (top right); Pattern, Eynsham Hall (centre left); Redwood, Eynsham Hall (centre); Wall, Eynsham Hall (centre right); The Web of Empire, Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1902) (lower left); View of rain, Eynsham Hall (lower centre); View of rain, Eynsham Hall (lower right)
Visual week notes for period up to 5th October, providing some visual highlights from the Clore Leadership residential, a Leadership scheme I am fortunate enough to be part of for 2019-20.
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Visual week notes for period up to 17th August, covering Docklands, the Edinburgh Fringe, and data…
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Visual week notes for period up to 27th July, covering Cornwall, spectacular perspectives and systems mapping.
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Visual week notes for period up to 14th July, covering the textures, materials and sights of Bari, Lecce, Matera, Otranto.
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Visual weeknotes for 11-17th May, covering a lecture at LCC, an interview with the Clore Leadership Programme, preparations for the E17 Art Trail, the Local Industrial Strategy in the South West and work in Cornwall.
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Visual weeknotes for 14-21 April, mainly covering installation and opening of The Joke’s On Us! exhibition, plus a few other bits such as the Extinction Rebellion protest and using the Kumu mapping tool.
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Visual weeknotes for a mixed week, but the absolute highlight was a visit to Kew Gardens.
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