Sarah Sparkes
RECESSIONAL AESTHETICS

Sunday October 17th
at James Taylor Gallery
Collent Street (just off Well Street) 2pm - midnight

Bring some food, join the dinner and discussion.
You will be called for your 'one-to-one' with Recessional Aesthetics

Sarah and Sandra

http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/

banquet table
Schedule

From 2pm - midnight
Sandra Sykorova and Sarah Sparkes
Recessional Aesthetics: one to one

"Workers Playtime" by Simon Bookish
2pm
William Raban
The Fiction of capitalism: The potential for an exponential decline?

2.30pm
David Graeber
Debt: the First Five Thousand Years

3.15pm
Oliver Rees
Address to Congress.

4pm
Ellie Harrison, Rachel Pimm and Edward Dorrian
Risk, responsibility and public money

5pm
Lutz Becker, Karen Mirza, Brad Butler
The Aesthetics of Resistance

15 minute break

6pm
Stefano Harney
For most people the crisis has just begun…

6.45pm
Maxa Zoller and Claire Tancon with William Cobbing
Processional Aesthetics

7.45pm
Alana Jelinek and John Reardon
De-schooling society

8.45pm
Dean Kenning and Paul O Kane
The Inoperative Community

9.30pm
Matthew Stone/Cedar Lewisohn
Interconnected Echoes/The Gut Club

10.15pm
About Now MMX by William Raban:
film screening: 27 mins.


watch the number screen
It is certain that we are all currently engaging in personal and sometime public conversations around the arts and the cuts and what to do in the face of the dramatic changes that are in motion. We are witnessing different strategies of mobilisation across the breadth of cultural production and we know that the arts are not alone, the public sector as a whole is to be cut and as such we all have different questions and pressures we are asking of ourselves on fundamental levels.

In this light this event is proposed as a frame for exchange at James Taylor Gallery. As you may know James Taylor Gallery is not a traditional gallery space, it is best described as an artist occupation of a 25,000 sq foot space in the East End awaiting finance for its planning permission for conversion to luxury flats. In the meantime the gallery is an artist run live work space that sites exhibitions whilst facing a rolling 2 month notice of eviction. We felt this a fitting space for discourse combining a vast space, the gallery's fragility, and the context of a group exhibition that will not only stretch over the Government announcement of the cuts - but also the weekend of Frieze.

This invitation is to attend and participate in Recessional Aesthetics; a durational, discursive event produced, staged, and facilitated by the context of the space and the conditions of our present moment. This will take place on Sunday 17th October from 2pm - 12 pm and is to be sited around a long dining table, a cross between a commune (communal) dining hall and a (bourgeoise) banqueting dinner. Around this table on the hour different thinkers and makers will open a discussion in relation to the economic, political, and social implication of the forthcoming cuts. Whilst different individuals will lead each hour according to a schedule - the forms of such a participation are free and may take the form of people / collectives conversing, cinematic interventions, readings, or performed works. Time keeping will be upheld by sonic interruptions on the hour from the series “workers playtime” in homage to the radio series started in 1941 “to keep up the morale of the workers”. Throughout the questions raised will include how we are working in the Arts?, how have we worked?, and how are we expected to work? So the day will act as a durational discursive event, a coming together of individuals as part of a collectivity operating in the threshold of the public and the private, an image, a staging and an active discussion.

Your discourse is welcome. You are free to sit down, eat, and to join the discussion. We ask only that you bring a food offering for the table.

... a thought must be coarse to find its way into action. Bertolt Brecht