Left to Right: Image by Phil Katz followed by images by Flora Livingstone.
Images and Video by Phil Katz
Images by Flora Livingstone (@_florasfilm_)
Images by Flora Livingstone (@_florasfilm_)
Images by Phil Katz
Images By @_florasfilm_
Day 2
Culture in Resistance (CiR) in Motion
A Day by Day Chronicle
Setting Up
The Taring Padi team coming together at Wortley Hall ahead of the five-day residential working conference.
Images by Flora Livingstone
Cultures in Resistance residential at Wortley Hall is being set up with artworks by Taring Padi - the renowned campaigning arts collective from Indonesia.
Image by Flora Livingstone ( @_florasfilm_)
Day 1
A welcome introduction to Wortley Hall by Dr. Michael Bailey, the political secretary of Wortley Hall.
Unveiling of oil triptych painting depicting Jimmy Reid and the work of the UCS work-in donated by artist Jamie Dodds.
Puppet Making workshop held at Wortley Hall by Taring Padi.
Day 2
Talks by Catarina Martinelli of Bibliotheca Hertziana and Victoria Holmes on art and labour in the age of AI, followed by sessions on art funding with creative healthcare advocate Gavin and composer Ben Lunn.
As participants drew up their own manifestos and prepared to share them, Nick Wright - chair of Manifesto Press - gave a wide-ranging lecture about the common elements of art and propaganda and what separates them.
Day 3
Images and Video by Phil Katz
Music and protest in the evening.
Breaking the chains of capitalism. Taring Padi and Manifesto workers wipe the floor with the system that is characterised by greed and waste.
Presentations by Dr. Lucy Burke on the Hess family guestbooks and by Conrad Landin on art and politics in interwar Germany, followed by a printmaking workshop led by Taring Padi.
Day 4
In the morning, Lucy Burke spoke of the power of Manifestos to ‘disturb and disrupt’ existing political balances. Arts Manifestos provide a mechanism to ‘challenge and change’ cultural and therefore, political, formations. Lucy left no stone unturned - Dadaists, Futurists and Surrealists were all subject to scrutiny.
Final session. Taring Padi on ‘learning and working together as a way of developing collective struggles’. Taring Padi session.
28 years of bringing arts to the people and bringing the people into art.
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