Call out 1: resources for migrant culture workers At Migrants in Culture we are developing a migrant resource pack: a document collecting and connecting existing sources of information and support for migrants working in culture. We are inviting our fellow migrants to contribute to the pack: let us know about organisations, programmes or resources that…
Category: Events
A Day of Art/Law – Reflections on the Live Art and Discussions at the Out(Law) Exhibition (SEAS) Socially Engaged Art Salon
A Day of Art/Law – Reflections on the Live Art and Discussions at the Out(Law) Exhibition (SEAS) Socially Engaged Art Salon by Giselle Jones BMECP Centre Brighton 14th September 2019. On 14thSeptember, the out(Law) exhibition, hosted a live art intervention Margarita X: A Case Study by artist Janina Moninska, followed by…
out(Law) Exhibition SEAS Socially Engaged Art Salon Brighton 7-29 September 2019
Sometimes we are outside, very rarely are we in. Hitting the highway and running for the hills may seem the most Butch Cassidy of remedies, in true renegade form. But these days, can we ever get outside law? Scroll on our screens and we find T’s&C’s, we wrench at those who are encamped and…
Lawscaping at the Venice Biennale
The event, ‘Escaping the Lawscape: a participatory game in the Giardini of Venice Art Biennale’, is drawn directly from Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos’s research on the lawscape. The action, which took place during the three days of the Venice Art Biennale opening from 8 to 10 May, was commissioned by the Dallas Pavilion 2019 and was…
XR, Law and Creative Rebellion
by Mothiur Rahman Mothiur Rahman, a member of the Art/Law Network and involved in the recent phenomena of Extinction Rebellion sums up some of the key points of the movement that may be of interest to those working on the art/law intersection. ‘XR’ has an interesting Declaration of Rebellion as well as the proposed…
Migrant’s Gift by Akila Richards
Migrant’s Gift by Akila Richards Artist and playwright Akila Richards shares her work on migration and colonialism through recounting experience within her practice of writing and her embroidered clothing. Her recent work appeared in digital animation and text on clothes for collective exhibition at ONCA Gallery, Constructed Geographies. The broad theme of the exhibition allowed each artist…
Redistributing the Sensible: The Brighton Homeless Bill of Rights by David Thomas
Redistributing the Sensible: The Brighton Homeless Bill of Rights by David Thomas We have a homelessness crisis. You need only walk the streets of Brighton and Hove, or any city in the country, to see it. But the street homeless that you see are only the visible symptom, the intolerable crux, of the housing crisis…
Listen to the Artists! A workshop on the connection between art and law from the perspective of the artists by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Listen to the Artists! A workshop on the connection between art and law from the perspective of the artists by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Organised by the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, University of Westminster 6thof February, 2019 Legal academics often have fixed ideas about art and art practices. These tend towards the idealisation of…
Integrative Arts and the Art of Attachment by Joanna Parker
Integrative Arts psychotherapist Jo Parker speaks of her involvement in Brighton Oasis Project (BOP)’s ‘Art of Attachment’ project, and how art can transcend and transform in the name of justice. ‘The authentic voice may not be the one you want to hear. All true art is subversive at some level or other, but it doesn’t…
Response to Jane Hinde’s As They Fell
by Sean Mulcahy From 6-8 September we ran an Art/Law Stream at the Critical Legal Conference. We were very lucky to have the artist and lawyer Jane Hinde come and share her work in installation from, as well as an inspiring talk on her work as a practitioner in both the law and art. Below…
Art/Law Stream at the Critical Legal Conference
The Sculpture Walk From 6-8 September we were delighted to host our first (and hopefully not last!) fantastic Art/Law Stream at the Critical Legal Conference, this year hosted by the Open University Law School, Milton Keynes. We had some brilliant interventions on the art/law/aesthetics/politics intersection, from scoping legal objects and artefacts with Swastee…
‘Who Told You Freedom Is Easy?’ Some Art/Law Impressions of Temporary Autonomous Art
By Andy Marlow Lawyer and Birkbeck LLM Student TAA Brighton, 2008 It is 4:24 p.m. on 5thMay 2018, and I sit in the ‘Royal Shit’ room at ‘Temporary Autonomous Art’. Around me are pieces of artwork that fit well the name of the group who decorated this space. There is a poster of…
Research Methods in Environmental Law – Launched!
by Dr Victoria Brooks, Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster On 17 May, Research Methods in Environmental Law, edited by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Victoria Brooks, was officially launched at the University of Westminster. The event took place in a small lecture theatre, with some wonderful quick-fire and occasionally dramatic contributions from some of the authors from…
Distant Animals, StreetLaw Brighton and Art/Law Network at the Tate Exchange ‘Who are we?’ Project
Last Sunday we were very excited to join members of The Hostile Environment Collective for the Tate Exchange ‘Who are we?’ Project Hostile Environment Tour. Liberty, Hunger for Freedom strikers, SOAS Detainee Support, Protest Stencil and other grass roots groups were also there Wednesday 23rd – Sunday 27th May as part of the programme of events. Artist and…
Art/Law Network at the Critical Legal Conference 2018
This year’s Critical Legal Conference is at The Open University, Milton Keynes, 6-8 September. The is regeneration, and as the conference webpage cites: “Drawing inspiration from the visions, strategies and conflicts that engendered the creation of Milton Keynes and The Open University at the end of the 1960s, and reflecting on recent conference themes at…
Guess Who? The Law Behind your Favourite USS Strike Memes
Wondering where some of your favourite memes during the USS strike have come from? Who the creative mind behind the inspired ‘Do you Believe in Life after Work’ that has made its way up and down the country in the last few weeks? Anna, the law behind the memes! Well, it’s no other than the…
Breaking Law’s Fourth Wall
Breaking Law’s Fourth Wall by Sean Mulcahy Law in the Limelight has been a series of workshops built in many ways on emerging legal performance scholarship,[1] exploring the relationship between theatre, performance and law. The third workshop in the series focused on the fourth wall, the invisible and imagined wall that exists between the audience…
Jack Tan’s Law in the Limelight Series published on the Art/Law Network Website
Developing insights on law through performance and theatre practice with Jack Tan’s Law in the Limelight series “Courts are heterotopic because society needs a space where a change of state or personhood happens: often quite severe and violent changes such as the removal of children, immigrants, refugees, incarceration and extradition.” Amy Linford, Architect and Participant…
‘Art Strike!’ with Art/Law Network & others Sussex UCU Strike Events 5 March 2018
‘Art Strike!’ with Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock, Dr Micheál O’Connell, Dr Eleftheria Lekakis, Art/Law Network & others 14.30 – 16.30 5 March, Mandela Hall, Falmer House Come and join us on the picket lines for a practical teach in/out on art strikes, the uses of art/law and radical pedagogy during the long crisis in higher education! FOR A REGULARLY…
