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In art and art education, when those representing protest speak, write, perform, or otherwise dis... more In art and art education, when those representing protest speak, write, perform, or otherwise distribute their labours, they encounter a conflict of consumption. This conflict is fought over the returnability of such actions into the system of funding, validation, and recognition that generally defines the climate of art’s research culture today – a research culture dominated, on the whole, by contemporary neoliberal policies in UK education. At stake here is the autonomy of protest in art education and pedagogy, and its role in the critique of neoliberal governmentality in general. With this in mind, it is the aim of this article to address the problem of returnability and, specifically, how to suspend it. The intention is not to elaborate further on this government’s ideological attack on the arts and humanities per se (inclusive of a wider attack on the poor and the British welfare state in general). But rather, to focus on the pedagogical performance, i.e. the signifying or disc...
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The aim of this thesis is to reconsider the concept of labour in contemporary art. It advances a ... more The aim of this thesis is to reconsider the concept of labour in contemporary art. It advances a newly developed theory of the phantasm, where a double force of negation and affirmation mediates production, as an appropriate model for analysis of art in the age of immaterial labour. Specifically this thesis investigates the relationship between artists and their labour, and how artistic labour is phantasmal in that it allows artists to operate in, and make visible, a space between (or in the shadow of) the aspects ofbeingat work and being available-for work. What the phantasm defines is the crucial movement that mediates artistic labour in sense, linking the artist's interior sense or imaginary to its external production in aesthetics. Chapter 1 situates this inquiry in the current era of immaterial labour characterised by an influential body of theory that has arisen around artistic practices since the 1970s (specifically Jacques Ranciere and Giorgio Agamben), which focuses on ...
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Notions of diagrammatics and the use of diagrams are increasingly visible in both art research an... more Notions of diagrammatics and the use of diagrams are increasingly visible in both art research and art practice. Yet reflection on diagrams and specifically the activity of diagramming tends to focus on the position of the author. Sher Doruff’s concept of what she calls ‘diagrammatic praxis’ sets out the foundations for this model. It is based on understanding how, through the doing of diagramming, one becomes relational to thought. This article proposes instead that the spectator’s diagrammatic praxis be investigated from a position of equality. The intention is to expand Doruff’s discourse beyond seeing the spectator as merely a collaborator, and evaluate how spectators become relational to diagrams on their own terms. By re-defining diagrammatic praxis around the spectator, the article suggests a re-organisation of the prevailing paradigm of informational consumption and communication. The diagrammatic spectator therefore offers a new perspective on how doing, seeing and thinking...
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ephemera: theory and politics in organization, May 2014
Notions of diagrammatics and the use of diagrams are increasingly visible in both art research an... more Notions of diagrammatics and the use of diagrams are increasingly visible in both art research and art practice. Yet reflection on diagrams and specifically the activity of diagramming tends to focus on the position of the author. Sher Doruff’s concept of what she calls ‘diagrammatic praxis’ sets out the foundations for this model. It is based on understanding how, through the doing of diagramming, one becomes relational to
thought. This article proposes instead that the spectator’s diagrammatic praxis be investigated from a position of equality. The intention is to expand Doruff’s discourse beyond seeing the spectator as merely a collaborator, and evaluate how spectators become relational to diagrams on their own terms. By re-defining diagrammatic praxis around the spectator, the article suggests a re-organisation of the prevailing paradigm of informational consumption and communication. The diagrammatic spectator therefore offers a new perspective on how doing, seeing and thinking through diagrams forms an important position of critical enquiry independent of the author.
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Conference Presentations by Matt Rodda
This video lecture/presentation, titled 'Diagramming the phantasm', explores the importance of di... more This video lecture/presentation, titled 'Diagramming the phantasm', explores the importance of diagrams in visualising the theory of the phantasm. In particular, the presentation utilises a diagramming of phantasmatic models (notably following Giorgio Agamben) to make the not easily observable empirical phenomena of the phantasm perceivable.
This presentation was originally delivered at the Diagram Research, Use & Generation Group's Open Symposium at UCL, in London on 14th and 15th July, 2012. The research presented here draws on my doctoral work completed at The Glasgow School of Art in 2011, titled 'The Man Without Labour: On the Phantasm of Artistic Labour'.
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Rand, S. and Felty, H. (2013) 'Life between borders: The nomadic life of curato... more Review of:
Rand, S. and Felty, H. (2013) 'Life between borders: The nomadic life of curators and artists'. New York: apexart
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ART&RESEARCH: A Journal of Ideas, Contexts and Methods, 2010
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The Kelvingrove Review, 2008
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thought. This article proposes instead that the spectator’s diagrammatic praxis be investigated from a position of equality. The intention is to expand Doruff’s discourse beyond seeing the spectator as merely a collaborator, and evaluate how spectators become relational to diagrams on their own terms. By re-defining diagrammatic praxis around the spectator, the article suggests a re-organisation of the prevailing paradigm of informational consumption and communication. The diagrammatic spectator therefore offers a new perspective on how doing, seeing and thinking through diagrams forms an important position of critical enquiry independent of the author.
Conference Presentations by Matt Rodda
This presentation was originally delivered at the Diagram Research, Use & Generation Group's Open Symposium at UCL, in London on 14th and 15th July, 2012. The research presented here draws on my doctoral work completed at The Glasgow School of Art in 2011, titled 'The Man Without Labour: On the Phantasm of Artistic Labour'.
Book Reviews by Matt Rodda
Rand, S. and Felty, H. (2013) 'Life between borders: The nomadic life of curators and artists'. New York: apexart
thought. This article proposes instead that the spectator’s diagrammatic praxis be investigated from a position of equality. The intention is to expand Doruff’s discourse beyond seeing the spectator as merely a collaborator, and evaluate how spectators become relational to diagrams on their own terms. By re-defining diagrammatic praxis around the spectator, the article suggests a re-organisation of the prevailing paradigm of informational consumption and communication. The diagrammatic spectator therefore offers a new perspective on how doing, seeing and thinking through diagrams forms an important position of critical enquiry independent of the author.
This presentation was originally delivered at the Diagram Research, Use & Generation Group's Open Symposium at UCL, in London on 14th and 15th July, 2012. The research presented here draws on my doctoral work completed at The Glasgow School of Art in 2011, titled 'The Man Without Labour: On the Phantasm of Artistic Labour'.
Rand, S. and Felty, H. (2013) 'Life between borders: The nomadic life of curators and artists'. New York: apexart