1.
The Politics of Engagement
13
th
March 2015
Jane Trowell, Platform
Www.platformlondon.org

2.
'Context is half the work'
Artists Placement Group, 1960s

3.
Where are we?

4.
When are we?

5.
By UHC Collective, commissioned by Platform

6.
The Niger Delta

7.
The Nigerian oil industry, map by Platform

8.
Ken Saro-Wiwa

9.
Ogoniland

10.
Battle Bus, The Living Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa
by Sokari Douglas Camp

11.
Who are we?

12.
http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.co.uk

13.
Why are we?

14.
“It’s not an ego trip,
it’s serious,
it’s politics,
it’s economics,
it’s everything.
And art in that instance
becomes so meaningful
both to the artist and
to the consumers of that
art”
Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1994

15.
“Poetry is not a luxury”
and
“Your silence will not protect you”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

16.
With whom are we?

17.
'social practice'
'socially engaged practice'
'dialogical aesthetics' (Kester)
'relational aesthetics' (Bourriaud)

18.
Catherine Itzin, 1980

19.
1994, Salford
www.littoral.org.uk

20.
1994, Dun Laoghaire
www.littoral.org.uk

21.
Suzanne Lacy, 1995

22.
Embed the thing in social movements

23.
How do we...keep going?

24.
Book Bloc, anti-cuts protest, 2010

25.
North Kent, rivers Thames & Medway,
and The Swale

26.
'The Body Electric' course