Dr Grace McQuitten, Social Practice/Social Enterprise

What really peaked my interest was:

• Engineering Relationships: eg; human behavioural research of buyers of products and social
  media metrics 
• Relational Antagonism: Claire Bishop eg Serra

Artists and arts role/s

• What is the role of art and artist in making change rather than representing it - True Democratic’s 
• Speak to the conflicts in society not just good things
• Provocation: What is our role as an artist: 1% movement – Walk on Wall Street
• How can we evaluate the artistic and aesthetic qualities of socially engaged art proactice?
• Is it possible for artworks to generate space for social critique at the same time as offering strategies for change?
• Can art, and indeed should art, attempt to create social change?

Ultimate I believe engaging in art/creativity it enables people to learn how to see things
(political, social, personal etc)  from other perspectives, lenses, and also become mindful or challenges their own set of lenses or perspective. Creates openness, compassion and exercises diplomacy.

Dr Marnie Badham

Research Question: What are the artistic and political strategies which inform the preoccupation of contemporary social practice artists with food production, consumption and
sharing?

Reconfigure the relationship between artist, art and the public

• Relational aesthetics: Art critic, curator, and historian Nicolas
  Bourriaud coined the term. A set of artistic practices
  which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of
  human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and
  private space. 
• Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics: Claire Bishop
• Going beyond knowing – principal of change
• Transnationalism: Cultural Tourism - Soft cultural diplomacy (residencies) working in communities not your own - Adapt content to different place – How do artists work in different places with cultural contexts – working in communities that are not your own.

Heide Development

• Concept of Destination Audience: Heide is a destination audience… could I mix this up?
• Reconfigure the relationship between the site, history and the public (context)

Met with Marnie and spoke about influencers for
projects:

• Jodie Hains – Film
• Elvis - The Countess Report
• Guerilla Girls – Data
• Michael Rokowitz, Parasite and Enemy Food Truck
• Constantina, Drag Queen – Indigenaity – box being observed – artefact

Jen Rae, Practice led Palaver – Creating in the Future

Example of art
extending beyond storytelling/reflecting and having an impact by contributing
to research and learning.

Role of the art
and artist in making or contributing to change.