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Another Emergency Staff Meeting: Artistic Responses to Instabilities in the Art School Ian Brown

BROWN, Ian (2025) Another Emergency Staff Meeting: Artistic Responses to Instabilities in the Art School Ian Brown. In: Unstable Systems, 11th-12th September 2025, Iceland University of the Arts.

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This research draws upon the experience of three art school lecturers who, together, work as Common Culture. All have witnessed the transformation of the art school from a relatively free educational space for creative exploration and experimentation into a highly structured provision, centered on a commercial transaction between the student-client and the institution. The paper will explore the use of autoethnographic methods within our artistic practice to investigate the impact of various changes that have been taking place within Higher Education in the UK.
In response, Common Culture has developed a series of narratives, set within a fictional art school, based on their collective experience. This has been developed into a comic/graphic novel for publication.

Keywords:

Autoethnography, contemporary artist practice, practice research, marketisation, neoliberalism, institutional critique, generative AI

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Faculty: School of Digital, Technologies and Arts > Art and Design
Event Title: Unstable Systems
Event Location: Iceland University of the Arts
Event Dates: 11th-12th September 2025
Depositing User: Ian BROWN
Date Deposited: 07 Oct 2025 14:41
Last Modified: 07 Oct 2025 14:41
URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/9343

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