A couple of discoveries today:
“Ways of Knowing” an experimental year long project “exploring the different registers, values and subjectivities of collaborative research”
http://waysofknowingresearch.wordpress.com/
I found out about the project because I follow one of the participants, Sheffield University academic Kate Pahl on twitter. (http://twitter.com/KatePahl) I came across Kate’s work via enthnographer Irna Qureshi who works with Kate. I’m extremely interested in collaborative research practices so discovering this project at this stage when it is just beginning is great timing for me.
Secondly a pretty fine blog article on participatory art, “Beuys’ Concept of Social Sculpture and Relational Art Practices Today”, discussing the work of Joseph Beuys, Jeremey Deller and Thomas Hirschhorn
http://rosswolfe.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/beuys-co…
I’m also thinking about a possible popup project for one of Fabric (http://www.fabricculture.co.uk/) empty shop spaces in Bradford. Fabric have recently aquired seven new spaces in the city centre and are offering people the opportunity to run events/popup projects in them. An exchange project? A free shop? Reading Eisenstein discussing historical examples of alternative currencies such as the Worgl experiment in Austria http://www.lietaer.com/2010/03/the-worgl-experimen… and the WIR in Switzerland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank is getting my brain whirring.
