Publication
2018
Self Organisation was based upon research conducted across the US into self-organised and publically available forms of art education. The text is constructed from over thirty hours of recordings with individuals who worked in public, private and self organised spaces in the arts. The text draws on their mundane everyday experiences, to the ideological core of their thought, which is then interrupted by my own dreams, poems and other forms of writing. The images are selected from a vast archive of personal photographs taken during that time.
The text directly places the reality of building and maintaining spaces of support up against moments of reverie and addresses the politics of burn out, the tension between self organisation and state support, and how the way we organise ourselves shapes our subjectivity.
As part of this research I also produced a report on self organisation and public resource creation in the arts which can be accessed below.
