Exhibition
Policy Show
15 Sep 2017 – 16 Dec 2017
Address
- 86 Heath Mill Lane
- Birmingham
- B9 4AR
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 10 min walk from Birmingham Moor St/Birmingham New St Stations
Policy Show is Eastside Projects as a think tank made up of a core group of artists and curators.
About
The core group will create three new policies at three different scales through the processes of Policy Show. Each policy will be an artwork or be informed by art thinking and art making.
Policy, though not always transparent, is a key human activity. It is a principle or course of action guiding personal, organisational, and political approaches to living. The think tank as a body of experts drafting and informing policy on particular subjects (often social, political, economic or corporate) is an effective but contaminated device for change. Policy Show proposes a think tankas a positive reconstructive force – a no-pressure-think-tank, a working group, a think group or fizz tank.
The Policy Show think tank is centred around a series of open afternoon session, following an adapted town meeting format, in which multiple publics are active participants. Each public meeting will also include invited guests to guide the policy making. At the end of each session the core group will draft a new policy and plan a series of actions to share, test and implement the policy.
The first policy will be drafted in response to unspoken policies of the art organisation – in this case, Eastside Projects – as we move forward into a new stage of our development. Meeting#1 will be facilitated by artist Rosalie Schweiker and will consider questions such as: What would a policy of care look like? Who loads the dishwasher? How good are we at listening to each other? How much should we be paying artists? What is the lifespan of an art organisation?
With: Christian Nyampeta, Ciara Phillips, Rehana Zaman and Teresa Cisneros