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Digital Participation

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444818822816

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What does it mean to have a rights-focused approach to arts participation?

What does it mean to have a rights-focused approach to arts participation? Tues 18 July 9:30am - 1:15pm The National Gallery, WC2N 5DN http://autograph-abp.co.uk/events/what-does-it-mean-to-have-a-rights-focusedapproach-to-arts-participation Guest speakers will present a range of perspectives and methods, providing insights into how these have applied to specific audience groups they’ve worked with. Speakers will then host a series of open roundtable discussions encouraging an open dialogue and exchange of ideas around the following issues: • How are rights-focused methods and processes applied in an arts context? • Why are rights-focused approaches important in the recruitment of participants and community engagement more broadly? • What participant, institutional and sector-wide changes can take place as a result of incorporating a rights-focused approach? This event marks the end of a year- long project called Canvas(s) funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Canvas(s) has explored access to cultural spaces with young people from refugee backgrounds. The project was formed around a diverse group of arts and migrants rights organisations: Autograph ABP, Counterpoints Arts, Migrants Rights Network, Asylum Aid, British Red Cross and the National Gallery. Warm wishes Rachel Rachel Craddock Young People’s Programmer +44 (0)20 7747 5891

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Cultural Democracy

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/Cultural/-/Projects/Towards-cultural-democracy.aspx

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Creative Collisions

The UK’s leading youth sector event in 2017! Join nine of the UK’s leading youth charities and more than 500 delegates for the most significant youth sector event of the year. Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, Creative Collisions is a collaboration between some of the UK’s most inspiring youth organisations: UK Youth, Girlguiding, The Scout Association, Ambition, Leap Confronting Conflict, NCS, NYA, The Mix, and VInspired. • Anna Smee was appointed CEO of UK Youth in 2014, working with young people to develop the skills they need to succeed in life. • Elliott Goat is a co-leader of Undivided, a nationwide youth-led movement aiming to secure the best possible Brexit deal for young people. Young people finding it challenging to access work. • Impact on young people, hanging on to jobs, less income increases in comparison to previous generations • Social media and it’s negative impact on body image • Importance of young people being heard • Political engagement is key • Education – obsession with university, more people going to University but biggest increase has slowed significantly – much lower for 80s. Rising university access but rate of progress has slowed – need to look at other routes. Things are really confusing if you don’t go down A-level university route, especially for those from lower-income families • Median pay by age - Those born in the late 1980s are earning less than those at the same age 15 years ago • Job mobility – a key mechanism for career progression and increased income • Pay rises when employees remain in their jobs over a year have slowed (until recently) • Status of people’s parents having a huge influence on young people’s lives, creating big divides. • 75% of adult mental illness at onset of adolescence Creators for change Uniting community around global issues UK – digital citizenship – online safely and using online tools responsibly and confidently Demonstrate the power of the internet to bring people together Internet Citizens Games and co-creation – accessible and engaging as possible Workshop series formed from test session with focus sessions Pilot programme demonstrating young people care about social issues – want to participate

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International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

Call for Papers We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Tenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, held 15–17 September 2017 at the University of Manchester in Manchester, UK. Founded in 2008, the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum brings together a community of museum practitioners, researchers, and thinkers. The key question addressed by the conference: How can the institution of the museum become more inclusive? In this time of fundamental social change, what is the role of the museum, both as a creature of that change, and perhaps also as an agent of change? We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks. The conference features research addressing the annual themes and the 2017 Special Focus: "Diaspora, Integration and Museums." For more information regarding the conference, use the links below to explore our conference website. Call for Papers Themes Presentation Types Scope & Concerns Submit a Proposal Submit your proposal by 15 February 2017. We welcome the submission of proposals to the conference at any time of the year before the final submission deadline. All proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, you may present in a virtual poster session or a virtual lightning talk. Virtual Sessions enable participants to present work to a body of peers and to engage with colleagues from afar. As virtual participants, presenters are scheduled in the formal program, have access to select conference content, can submit an article for peer review and possible publication, may upload an online presentation, and can enjoy Annual Membership to the research network and subscriber access to The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum.

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Participate

http://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do/major-projects/creative-learning-and-young-people/artworks-scotland/is-this-the-best-it-can-be http://artworks.cymru/en/quality-principles/people

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Feminism and Contemporary Art

Local/Global Dynamics in Feminism and Contemporary Art Venue: Middlesex University, Grove Building, Hendon Campus, The Burroughs, Middlesex University, London, NW4 4BT, UK. Date: Monday 3 July 2017, 11-6pm. This event is open to artists, academics and curators interested in feminism and contemporary art. The conference will be organised through speeches, panel discussions, breakout sessions on particular topics and a discussion of attendee's posters (see the invitation to all attendees, below). Tickets : £10 / £5 (students/discount) to cover catering costs. http://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-creative-industries/event/localglobal-dynamics-in-feminism-and-contemporary-art PROGRAM 10.30 Registration, Atrium, Grove Building. 11 - 11.30 Katy Deepwell (founder and editor of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal and Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism, Middlesex University) ‘Practicing local/global dynamics in feminist art criticism and history in the last 20 years’ 11.30 - 1. 30 Panel discussion and presentation of current feminist research by: Giulia Lamoni (art historian, Investigadora FCT, Instituto de Historio de Arte, Lisbon) Ebru Yetiskin (curator, Associate Professor in Sociology, Media Theory, Digital Humanities. Istanbul Technical University) Emanuela de Cecco (art critic/art historian, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) Martina Pachmanova (art historian, Associate Professor, Katedra teorie a dejin umeni, VSUP/UMPRUM v Praze, Department of Art Theory and History, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague) 1.30-3.30 Research exchange and lunch. Poster presentations of current research by attendees. 3.30-5.00 6 breakout sessions are discussion groups. These will examine 1) histories of women's film and video work; 2) women performance artists; 3) activism in the visual arts / cultural snipers ; 4) women artists working with sound; 5) rethinking domesticity and women's labour; and 6) rewriting histories of contemporary art and feminism. 5.00-6.00 Plenary. QUESTIONS EXPLORED Writing in 1990, Elspeth Probyn argued that it was important to differentiate the concepts of locale, location and the local in order to address the broader questions of knowledge production and subject position in "where and how we may speak" - as well as a means to draw on a rich legacy of feminist thought from Adrienne Rich to Gayatri Spivak.1 In the production of artworks and in the analysis and presentation of the works of women artists in an international art world where globalisation, post-colonialism and a diasporic cultural politics have been predominant for two decades, this differentiation provides a starting point for this conference. Feminist questions about the politics of location; feminism's role in countering "objective"/ "dominant" forms of knowledge, canons and historical agendas; as well as differentiating between speaking as women or Woman (as split and non-identitarian in her identifications) will be considered. Feminism has, for some time, argued that it can progress by "acting locally, thinking globally" in tackling women's issues, often bypassing the question of the national en route to global comparisons on a world stage or by directing its critique at localised forms of nationalism. Feminism nevertheless has also to counter perceptions of itself as homogeneous, when it is actually heterogeneous and scattered in how the position of women artists is theorised globally, and how women artists as subjects, both represented and representative and neither singular nor stereotypical, are written about. Acknowledging that individually we may speak from a location, about a locale and address local concerns requires more than personal caveats, it necessitates a commitment to dialogue and exchange as well as to hearing and engaging with other voices in the world who represent different realities/locations as well as diverse theoretical positions to our own. This conference has been organised with the aim of building new and shared understandings across generations and geographies to think about where feminist debate in the visual arts is positioned today, especially given the current "popularity" of women artists in museums, biennales and galleries, as well as its directions for the future. The conference aims to address how different local concerns appear internationally and how locales may produce different understandings (locations) which may be productive for a stronger local and global dynamics within and across feminism(s). All of the above approaches have been central to the work of the journal, n.paradoxa, for the last 20 years and this conference addresses the work of feminists, artists and researchers who have helped to create n.paradoxa: an international feminist art journal in a visual display of former contributors' comments. The conference coincides with Volume 40 of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal (July 2017) on the theme of Ends and Beginnings. In its 20 years of publication, over 400 women artists, writers and curators from more than 80 countries have contributed. 1. Elspeth Probyn 'Travels in the Postmodern, Making Sense of the Local' in L. Nicholson (ed) Feminism/ Postmodernism (Routledge, 1990) pp.176-189 INVITATION TO ALL ATTENDEES All attendees, in the spirit of exchanging work and ideas, are invited to bring a poster outlining their own research work on feminism and contemporary art. The poster can represent a current art project, a research project, a thesis proposal or a plan for an article, chapter or book. The poster can be speculative, a proposition or a projection of future work. Part of the extended lunch time will be given over to attendees to discuss / present their poster displays. Please bring a simple A1-A3 format on paper. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This is a Create/Feminisms event from the Department of Visual Arts, with the assistance of students from BA Fine Art, and staff in Fine Art/Visual Culture. This event is supported by ADRI research funds at Middlesex University and KT press, publishers of n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal. Organiser: Katy Deepwell K.Deepwell@mdx.ac.uk or katy@ktpress.co.uk Katy Deepwell, Founder and Editor of n.paradoxa Professor of Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism, Middlesex University n.paradoxa is published by: KT press 38 Bellot St London SE10 0AQ, UK Tel/fax: +44 208 858 3331 Editorial: katy@ktpress.co.uk Sales: ktpress@ktpress.co.uk Website: http://www.ktpress.co.uk Current Volume of n.paradoxa, Volume 39 (Jan 2017) Organising/Organisations. 20th Year of publication: Volume 40 (July 2017) Ends and Beginnings In 20 years, n.paradoxa: international feminist art journal has published more than 550 articles from artists, curators, and academics living and working in more than 80 countries. KT press also publish ebooks – 9 fantastic titles are available in epub format. These are available to Libraries via Ingrams MyiLibrary and Proquest’s EBL. These .epubs can be read on any computer through an ebook reader programme. n.paradoxa has started a MOOC (mass open online course) http://nparadoxa.com 10 free lessons. Register an email to join!