This roundtable will explore a range of alternative values including alternative vocabularies and discourses of value itself. The concept of value - and opposition to the use of the term - has diverse valences in different contexts and debates, and in different academic disciplines and fields, including art, design, cultural policy and cultural studies. The purpose of the roundtable is to bring out these differences in an open discussion to understand how they come about and what effects they have on what gets valued in the overlaps and gaps between cultural policy research, arts activism, creative practices and social justice. We are in particular interested in how a specialist art and design university, such as UAL, may participate and shape value debates and policies.
Participants:
Justin O’Connor, author of Culture is not an Industry.
Tom Holert, author of Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art’s Epistemic Politics
Carol Tulloch, Professor of Dress, Diaspora and Transnationalism at UAL, author of The Birth of Cool: Style Narratives of the African Diaspora
Paul Goodwin, Director at UAL's Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) who has written widely on curating, migration and globalisation
David Cross, Reader in Fine Art at UAL, artist and advocate for decarbonization with decolonisation.
Patrycja Kaszynska, Senior Research Fellow, UAL and author of numerous papers on value in relation to culture including “Cultural value as meaning-making” in Cultural Trends, 2024 and Understanding the Value of Art and Culture: The AHRC Cultural Value Project Report (with Geoffrey Crossick) 2016
Chaired by Dave Beech, Reader in Art and Marxism and author of Art and Value.
Please note, we are also holding a sister event – “Value +/- Art: Three Proposals”–discussing related issues at Camden Arts Centre, Café and Garden, 30 October, 5-7.15pm. You are welcome to attend both events. Please follow this link for more details and to sign up for a sister event.
We would like to acknowledge the generous funding of SOAS and the Swedish Research Council through the research environment Imaginaries of Value.
Photo credit: © Dave Beech
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