British Art Show 9 and Socially Engaged Art

Wolverhampton School of Art / Centre for Art, Design, Research & Experimentation / FEINART 

A Conversation Between Hammad Nasar, John Roberts, Gábor Erlich, Waiwai Chan and Maria Mkrtycheva

Abstract

We are pleased to present a conversation with Hammad Nasar, John Roberts, Gábor Erlich, Waiwai Chan and Maria Mkrtycheva on the British Art Show 9 and socially engaged art.

The talk will preview BAS9 in Wolverhampton (Jan 22-10 Oct 2021), and the other tour venues, Aberdeen (10 July-10 Oct 2021), Manchester (13 May-4 Sept 2022) and Plymouth (8 Oct-23 Dec, 2022).

The event is organised by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Horizon 2020 FEINART training programme (The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art) and the Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton.

Hammad Nasar: Co-curator with Irene Aristizábal of British Art Show 9, Senior freelance Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre and co-organiser with Sarah Victoria Turner of London, Asia, research project. He was also the initial Director of the Stuart Hall Foundation (2018-19) and in 2015 curated, Excessive Enthusiasm: Ha Bik Chuen and the Archive as Practice (2015), at the Asia Art Archive.

John Roberts: Prof. Art & Aesthetics, University of Wolverhampton, Project Manager of FEINART, and the author of a number of books including: The Reasoning of Unreason: Universalism, Capitalism and Disenlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Capitalism and the Limits of Desire (Bloomsbury 2021).

Gábor Erlich: artist and writer and FEINART Early-Stage Researcher in socially engaged art and political economy.

Waiwai Chan: artist and FEINART Early-Stage Researcher in decolonialization and socially engaged art.

Maria Mkrtycheva: curator and FEINART Early-Stage Researcher in pedagogy, direct democracy and socially engaged art.

Centre for Art, Design, Research & Experimentation

The Centre for Art, Design, Research & Experimentation (CADRE) accommodates researchers within the Wolverhampton School of Art. It was established in 2006 to explore and develop the beneficial effect of art and design upon society. The Centre is clustered into three focused areas of research interests: Art, Society and Social Practice; Digital Technology Theory and Practice; Material and Theoretical Practice.