'The Politics of Engagement' A keynote presentation made by Jane Trowell on behalf of Platform for the Virtual Symposium organised by Middlesex University with the University of the Highlands and Islands, 13th March 2015. http://artsocialpractice.net

1. The Politics of Engagement
13
th
March 2015
Jane Trowell, Platform
Www.platformlondon.org

2. 'Context is half the work'
Artists Placement Group, 1960s

3. Where are we?

7. When are we?

8. By UHC Collective, commissioned by Platform

9. The Niger Delta

10. The Nigerian oil industry, map by Platform

11. Ken Saro-Wiwa

13. Ogoniland

14. Battle Bus, The Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa
by Sokari Douglas Camp

16. Who are we?

18. http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.co.uk

19. Why are we?

20. “It’s not an ego trip,
it’s serious,
it’s politics,
it’s economics,
it’s everything.
And art in that instance
becomes so meaningful
both to the artist and
to the consumers of that
art”
Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1994

21. “Poetry is not a luxury”
and
“Your silence will not protect you”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

22. With whom are we?

23. 'social practice'
'socially engaged practice'
'dialogical aesthetics' (Kester)
'relational aesthetics' (Bourriaud)

24. Catherine Itzin, 1980

25. 1994, Salford
www.littoral.org.uk

26. 1994, Dun Laoghaire
www.littoral.org.uk

27. Suzanne Lacy, 1995

28. Embed the thing in social movements

29. How do we...keep going?

31. Book Bloc, anti-cuts protest, 2010

33. North Kent, rivers Thames & Medway,
and The Swale

34. 'The Body Electric' course