- The Tate decides to host DQSH
- Art not Propaganda, together with Safe Schools Alliance, start a petition on change.org
- Petition disappears!
- New petition gathers momentum. Usual suspects start spitting feathers
- Probably because of all this, the Telegraph have uncovered some well dodgy educational materials being produced by Tate Galleries.
And I am now looking up Linda Stuparts projects and trying to make sense of this word smorgasbord:
The project conflates different discourses around objects; those of the art object, an object oriented ontology (via Speculative Realism), sexual objectification (via second wave feminist conceptions of the male gaze, queer theory and post-feminism) and the psychoanalytical object. The project proposes that a new ethical and aesthetic position may be gleaned from making and writing contemporary art from specific positions of objecthood.
A non-division, or absence of relation; voiding of distance, which I propose as the post-critical empathetic exchange of objects, is played out through my practice, which enacts a non-division between writing and making; experimenting with intimacy, embodied critique and realisms without representation
Thematically, the work situates my ‘self’ as material – working with strategies of confessional, critique and fictional writing and image/object production in relation to other kinds of materials and in particular relation to productions of images, art and art worlds.