Week 4: Question
What are the limitations on art practice?
PART 1: THE LAW
- Filming, recording, taking pictures in public spaces. What does the law say? When should artists break it?
A case study from the Civil Rights Movement about an artist arrested under terrorist act while filming. Read here.
- What are the consequences of the privatisation of public space on civil liberties? Article by Anna Minton 'These cities within cities are eating up Britain's streets'. Read here.
- The state and private bodies filming us: CCTV official government guidance. Read here.
- Gently exploring what is permissible in public space: 'Everything Is OK' best of. Watch here. And their youtube channel here.
Further reading: Anna Minton, Ground Control, Penguin Books, 2009
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What are the limitations on art practice?
PART 1: THE LAW
- Filming, recording, taking pictures in public spaces. What does the law say? When should artists break it?
A case study from the Civil Rights Movement about an artist arrested under terrorist act while filming. Read here.
- What are the consequences of the privatisation of public space on civil liberties? Article by Anna Minton 'These cities within cities are eating up Britain's streets'. Read here.
- The state and private bodies filming us: CCTV official government guidance. Read here.
- Gently exploring what is permissible in public space: 'Everything Is OK' best of. Watch here. And their youtube channel here.
Further reading: Anna Minton, Ground Control, Penguin Books, 2009
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LINKS AND NOTES FROM DISCUSSION
BOOK AND ESSAY
- 'Notes On Camp' by Susan Sontag
ARTISTS
- Black Dogs - Leeds based art collective.
- John Jordan
About the project, Please Love Austria, a Big Brother parody in a container featuring asylum seekers supposedly competing for a residency visa.