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Episode 385- Useful Art explodes what your sense of Art with a capital "A" is and can be, with John Byrne, author of "Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World"

March 28, 20261h 9m · 10,568 words

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John Byrne, author of " Useful Art- How Activist Artists Can Change the World," and professor of Useful Art at Liverpool John Moores University's School of Art and Design, talks about: The city of Liverpool and its art community, with about 20 total galleries, and how he fits into it; where he'll be book touring the book; a key framing in the book, being in a 'neo-liberal occupation' that we live under, which has a huge impact on the culture industries and…

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the whole atmosphere in the room was was just kind of dropped it was really really venomous uh i was really shocked that that amongst very liberal intellectuals from the art world you could still upset people that easily um by just challenging some kind of cherished notions
what if we actually allowed all of the good things about art to continue developing what would it become and what would we need to rethink in order to let that happen and isn't it a good idea to start thinking about that right now because if we don't neoliberal capture will turn everything into a commodity
rolling jubilee just buy wow debt at the going rate which is a fraction of the cost and then strike it off rather than waiting for it to be paid back with interest

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