Contributed Papers
The full text of these contributed papers is stored on the Interrupt website. Click through the links below to read the papers in full. Contributors can add new papers through the add new stuff area.
- The View From Here
- Having passed the half-way stage of these symposia, it is time to overcome the general reluctance to engage in the debate that is fundamental to this project: what do we mean by "socially-engaged practice"? What does it include or exclude? While I can, to
- Space Campaigns and Living Work
- Lars Bang Larsen's discussion of visual art beyond the white cube extends beyond new sites and contexts for art work and asks question on how art meets the ideological spaces of politics and mass media - and of how behaviour has become aesthetic.
- Contesting space, arguments over access
- "I always thought galleries like this (Tate Britain) were only for rich people, coming here as part of my work in a day centre has helped me realise it's an interesting place for everyone, I want to come back now with my family as well as work." (Member
- Life Changes
- David Butler discusses the shift in government policy that increasingly recognises the role of artists in contributing to 'social inclusion' initiatives and welcomes your response.
- We Did Stir Things Up
- This research paper explores the various roles artists play and investigates the 'forms of engagement' between artists, participants and others, which occur within Arts Council England's 'Artists in Sites for Learning Scheme' (AiSfL).
- Interrupt Symposia Outline
- An overview of the five Interrupt Symposia which took place in 2003.
- Commissioned Artists (Interrupt Symposia)
- Two artists - Anna Best and Jason Bowman - have been commissioned to make work that engages with and critiques the content and structure of the symposia.
- Government and the Value of Culture
- A DCMS paper.
- Aritist as Educator - symposium overview
- An overview of the Artist as Educator symposium.
- Artist as Activist? - symposium outline
- This symposium examined the theoretical underpinnings and debates around social/political activism. It took as an axiom that all art is a social activity. However, it also recognised that artists, their practices and their works aspire to direct forms of
- Artist as Educator
- What is the nature of artists’ engagement with participants? How do we value engagement within art and education practice?
- Artist as Researcher - symposium outline
- If we consider artistic and educational practices as forms of critical enquiry, how do we address the relationships between knowledge, practice, theory and context? This symposium examined practice in the art and education sectors that is based/driven/
- The Role of Artists in Sites for Learning
- 'Artists excavate the unconscious of our culture and act as seismographs, recording subtle tremors long before they are felt more widely in our community' (Corrin, 1999.)