Critical Interruptions Publication Launch

7pm, 9 May 2018
Live Art Development Agency
117A Mansford Street
London, E2 6LX
Free but please reserve a place in advance

Critical Interruptions Vol I follows Steakhouse: Live Writing, a pilot project undertaken as part of Steakhouse Live’s LONGER WETTER FASTER BETTER festival in October 2016. It brings together artists, curators and producers, writers and critics to think through their relationship with criticism, revealing passionately held and often conflicting opinions on what criticism is and where it resides.

To mark the launch of the publication, its editors, Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin and Bojana Janković), and Steakhouse Live invite collaborators, critics, audiences, artists, curators and producers to bring this disagreement into the public arena.
 
The evening will feature a performance response by Eunjung Kim, a series of provocations by Owen Parry, Libby Norman, Jen Boyd, Bojana Janković and Diana Damian Martin, and an open conversation hosted by Brian Lobel.
***Special launch price on the night £11 (usual price £13.50)***
 
More information on the publication and link to pre-order:
 
‘Critical Interruptions Vol I’ brings together artists, curators and producers, writers and critics including Palin Ansusinha, Katy Baird, Katharina Joy Book, Jennifer Boyd, Jasmine Shigemura Lee, Emma Selwyn and Malik Nashad Sharpe to think through their relationship with criticism.
 
Critical Interruptions Vol 1 exposes this fractured state of criticism in Live Art: the fact that while the current state of affairs satisfies no one, there is little agreement on what that status quo is.
 
“We begin from the position that criticism is a political event, formed at the confluence of artist practice and the politics it lives in, attacks, reinforces or creates. We begin from the premise that the ecology of criticism is not one of journalism, but of art practice. We begin with a disregard for criticism as secluded work and instead, propose criticism as a collaborative practice.” – Critical Interruptions
 
Available to pre-order on Unbound – https://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/products/critical-interruptions-vol-i-steakhouse-live
 
Critical Interruptions Vol I is supported by Live Art UK and Steakhouse Live.
 
Critical Interruptions is a collaborative project exploring live art and performance criticism. With little regards for review, we search for critical forms and strategies in dialogue with live art and performance, wonder how to develop rigorous and relevant critical writing and lure new writers into thinking about radical and experimental work. Critical Interruptions is a project by Diana Damian Martin and Bojana Janković.
 
Drinks will be served.

The publication brings together artists, curators and producers, writers and critics including Palin Ansusinha, Katy Baird, Katharina Joy Book, Jennifer Boyd, Jasmine Shigemura Lee, Emma Selwyn and Malik Nashad Sharpe to think through their relationship with criticism, revealing passionately held and often conflicting opinions on what criticism is and where it resides.

Critical Interruptions Vol 1 exposes this fractured state of criticism in Live Art: the fact that while the current state of affairs satisfies no one, there is little agreement on what that status quo is.

To mark the launch of the publication, its editors, Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin and Bojana Janković), and Steakhouse Live invite collaborators, critics, audiences, artists, curators and producers to bring this disagreement into the public arena.

“We begin from the position that criticism is a political event, formed at the confluence of artist practice and the politics it lives in, attacks, reinforces or creates. We begin from the premise that the ecology of criticism is not one of journalism, but of art practice. We begin with a disregard for criticism as secluded work and instead, propose criticism as a collaborative practice.” – Critical Interruptions

Critical Interruptions Vol I is supported by Live Art UK and Steakhouse Live and can now be Pre-ordered on Unbound

Critical Interruptions is a collaborative project exploring live art and performance criticism. With little regards for review, we search for critical forms and strategies in dialogue with live art and performance, wonder how to develop rigorous and relevant critical writing and lure new writers into thinking about radical and experimental work. Critical Interruptions is a project by Diana Damian Martin and Bojana Janković.