[spectre] precarious times | plymouth, uk | 1-3 dec

[Geoff Cox]

PRECARIOUS TIMES
workshop/conference, part of the Finale Symposium for British Art Show 7 
"IN THE DAYS OF THE COMET"

dates: 1-3 December 2011
venues: Plymouth University and Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK.

In times of financial crisis, austerity measures, and the increased 
privatisation of digital networks and public services, what are the 
conditions under which we produce art, ideas and concepts? If working as 
part of the arts has always been precarious, it now operates in 
exaggerated ways. The symposium will explore these issues in the context 
of the British Art Show (currently taking place in Plymouth), asserting 
that the future is largely conditioned through the reality of the 
political economy, leaving the art world ever more vulnerable but also 
at the same time a crucial site of struggle. In these precarious times, 
what does the art world have to offer?

Speakers include Franco Berardi Bifo (online), Kevin Carter, Geoff Cox, 
Freee art collective, Robert Jackson, Joasia Krysa, Anya Lewin, Malcolm 
Miles, Vlad Morariu, Andrew Prior, Helen Pritchard, Stevphen Shukaitis, 
Kuba Szreder, Magda Tyzlik-Carver, and Ubermorgen.com.

For more details on the conference, go to 
http://www.kurator.org/research/reclaiming-criticality/
For more details on the phd workshop, go to 
http://www.kurator.org/research/precarious-research/
For more details on the overall Finale Symposium for British Art Show 7, 
go to http://plymouthbas7.org/constellation/decemberevents/

Precarious Times is organised by KURATOR and Culture-­Theory-Space 
research groups, Plymouth University, UK, in collaboration with the 
Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University, DK. Supported by 
the Centre for Media, Art and Design Research (MADr), Plymouth 
University, University College Falmouth, Centre for Digital Urban 
Living, Aarhus University, and Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium (PVAC).