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<h1>The Arts in Solidarity:</h1>
<h2 style="margin-top:0.5em!important">Navigating Funding
Constraints and Shifting Paradigms of Growth and Competition <br>
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<h3>13 April 2024, 13:00–17:00 / Casco HQ<br>
Lange Nieuwstraat 7, 3512 PA Utrecht, Netherlands <br>
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With contributions from Gertrude Flentge, Yazan Khalili, Laura
Alexander, Justin O’Connor, Andy Hewitt, and Mel Jordan. This
event is a working assembly convened by the Partisan Social Club,
UK, and Casco Art Institute as part of the SPACEX-Rise exchange
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In the UK and the Netherlands, numerous major arts institutions
have been compelled to align with neoliberal policies and
‘diversify’ their funding sources over the past decade, thereby
limiting possibilities for economic sustainability. The Arts in
Solidarity event raises crucial questions about navigating
challenging times. It unites scholars, artists, and arts
organizations from the UK and the Netherlands to strategize
alternatives to limiting and limited funding paradigms. Can the
UK's experience offer valuable insights? How have the arts
confronted past and present challenges? Together, we will
discuss and debate: How do we continue critical arts-based work
when public resources are dwindling? How can we better share and
common our work? How can we resist arts funding becoming a
competitive process between institutions? Can arts institutions
apply social and art commoning practices as methods to challenge
the current economic structures of funding? How can we impact
policymaking through developing new experimental, collaborative,
and solidary practices? <span style="font-family:Merriweather">How
can commoning-based responses to the demise of arts subsidies
help the arts realign with radical agendas for more equitable
futures?</span></span></p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/">https://postdigitalcultures.org/about/</a>
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>
Latest:
Blog: '30-Second Book Review No.1: Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/3/4/30-second-book-review-no1-kate-crawford-atlas-of-ai.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/3/4/30-second-book-review-no1-kate-crawford-atlas-of-ai.html</a>
30-Second Book Review No.2: K Allado-McDowell’s Amor Cringe (2022) and Pharmako-AI (2020): <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/3/20/30-second-book-review-no2-k-allado-mcdowells-amor-cringe-and.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2024/3/20/30-second-book-review-no2-k-allado-mcdowells-amor-cringe-and.html</a>
Interview: (open access) ‘How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA%20chapters/Briel_9781802076622_ch5_OA-1687267442.pdf">https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/pb-assets/OA%20chapters/Briel_9781802076622_ch5_OA-1687267442.pdf</a>
Book series (open access): Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers series, edited by Janneke Adema, Simon Bowie, Gary Hall and Rebekka Kiesewetter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-books/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-books/</a>
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