The article contextualises the emergence of the Feral Art School, established in Hull in 2018 by artist‐educators following the winding down of Hull School of Art and Design. This alternative art school is the most recent of many established in the UK since the government’s Independent Review of Higher Education Funding & Student Finance or Browne Review. This article argues that the processes of ‘economisation’ enacted by this review have severely threatened the health of arts education in the UK, forcing the closure of provision and increasing barriers to higher education arts education for the disadvantaged. This article uses the example of Feral Art School to demonstrate how provincial art schools might re‐emerge in new, counter‐hegemonic forms. The Feral Art School is run as a Community Interest Company (CIC) with cooperative values. We argue that these values extend to the philosophy of education underpinning all of Feral’s activities.

Review of: Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art and Design Education, Lee Campbell (2020) (ed.) New York: Peter Lang, 290 pp., ISBN 978-1-43316-640-2, h/bk, £64.00

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RESUMO Este artigo examina e contextualiza criticamente a recente onda de escolas de arte autônomas fundadas no Reino Unido a partir da Independent Review of Higher Education Funding & Student Finance, ou revisão Browne. Discute que estas instituições foram constituídas como uma resposta direta a esta política econômica e à economização neoliberal mais ampla do ensino superior. Com base no trabalho do Edu-Factory Collective e na teoria marxista autonomista que inspirou seu projeto, este artigo discute que estas novas escolas de arte alternativas podem ser compreendidas como instituições autônomas comuns. Além disso, que representam alternativas genuinamente viáveis à prestação estatal mercantilizada, monetarizada e comercializada. Finalmente, com base no trabalho de Santos, são analisadas três escolas de arte alternativas (The Other MA, Southend, Reino Unido; The School of the Damned, Londres, Reino Unido; @.ac, Reino Unido) como formas nascentes da pluriversidade polifônica.

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