3 December - Lab Summary

Expectations/Aims/Outcomes, etc. (Feel free to add to this list!)

1. Conduct fieldwork in London (outside of New Cross) and potentially other parts of England, as well as drawing on our own collective personal histories, geographies, homes
2. Identify and develop the most effective format for the project/material outcome (publication, exhibition, performance, happening/intervention, film, conference, seminar, etc.)
3. Innovatively use or create a space, whether it is in a gallery, a public space or something else
4. Identify appropriate roles for everyone based on individual interest, experience, inclinations
5. Identify opportunities to meet people outside of the group - arts professionals, artists, administrators, funding bodies, other MA students at Goldsmiths and at other institutions - through direct meeting or through an exchange of existing contacts
6. Establish a process to document the process - which will be this blog during the planning stages and potentially a hard version at a later stage
7. Create something that (or part of which) can be continued after the completion of the MA lab
8. Take into consideration our audience, network/mapping concepts, alternative models, innovative collaborative practices

Preliminary resources/ideas/concepts:
de Certeau- Practice of Everyday Life
Situationists, Debord, Lefebvre - Production of Space
psychogeographies (see suggested texts/bibliography)
spatial practices - theoretically and practically conceived
subjectivity forming within this:
1. exhibiting culture; institutions; transforming practices
2. aesthetics/activism
3. individual artist practice; cartography as a strategy; transforming of identity and subjectivity

Potential directions/further ideas to explore:
Artist-run spaces; collectives; spaces utilized in interesting/new/radical ways
How can the cultural value of a space be increased?
Public art - who is the public and where does authorship lie?
How autonomous can a commissioned artwork be?
Dangers of gentrification and its repackaging as cultural regeneration
Transformative strategies: practice of everyday life, cartography, art as means to bring viewer/spectator into present moment (vs. existing in past or constantly thinking of future)

Next Steps:
Shop at 34 - make a visit Thus, 10 Dec; think about ways to use space; potentially make a proposal to organization (Maria)
Visit Church project (Julia)