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…
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Am I In or Out?
by Arthur MacTaggart I have no training in art. My creativity at school was limited to doodles on my books. And yet now, I find that art has become a crucial tool. About a decade ago, my life went off the rails, and I was sentenced to a short spell in prison. …
Migrants In Culture Survey – Key Research Findings Report
Migrants In Culture Survey – Key Research Findings Report- evidence of the impact of the Hostile Environment on the UK cultural sector. What is the impact of the Hostile Environment on the Cultural Sector? Your workplace. Your experience. Earlier this year we partnered with Migrants in Culture, a group of migrants directly experiencing increasing hostility…
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…
Squatters’ Rights – Animal Squat and Radical Art/Law Education
by Double Why of Dog Section Press. Animal Squat is a radical book for children. I say “for children” with a bit of hesitation, because I don’t like to set age boundaries. Maybe a better definition would be an illustrated book with a small amount of text, which makes it easier to read. I say…
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…
Byebye Laws
by Amy Frances Wishart Corcoran Check out this rather wonderful film by network member Amy about the trials and tribulations of an anonymous ‘byelaw breaker’. The piece brings a very welcome light hearted critique of the ridiculousness legal language, local bye laws, demonstrating the power that they can actually hold depending on their interpretation .. Amy…
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…
Art for International Law – Freedom Flotilla
by James Godfrey James Godfrey is a member of the Art/Law Network and part of the Campaign and Media Team of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition Responding to ongoing calls from Gaza to break the Israeli blockade deemed illegal under international law, four Freedom Flotilla boats have recently set sail in July 2018 from different ports in Scandinavia. After…
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…
Interview with Amanda Perry-Kessaris
Interview by Swastee Ranjan For this issue, I interviewed Amanda Perry-Kessaris who is a Professor at the School of Law, University of Kent. She is a researcher with qualifications in law, economics and graphic design who has is interested in provoking and facilitating researchers to make legal their research visible and tangible in images…
