Visualising the Empire of Capital

Hudson, Martyn

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“…The ethnographic framework of this research developed as part of wider studies of social formations by the authors which tried to combine large-scale social processes with intimate case studies. This has been a distinctive ethnographic project which has often tried to provide a historical ethnography of objects, machines, social beings broadly situated within a phenomenological approach informed by critical theory (Hudson 2015(Hudson , 2016(Hudson , 2017a(Hudson , 2017b(Hudson , 2018(Hudson , 2019Donkin 2016Donkin , 2017. Central to that ethnographic project is the idea of the experimental space as something which can be observed in its use by social beings.…”

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“…The Empty Shop organisation often talked about itself as navigating and in so far as we use those oceanic metaphors we could also talk about orienteering in a specific landscape or ground. This was at a time of rupture, or indeed a 'time of monsters' (see Hudson 2019) in which there was a certain sense of both social catastrophe external to the hybrid organisation and an interior crisis: of meaning, mission and futures. Over ten years the organisation, as a multiple, combinatory entity had run a number of arts and music venues and not only had a trusted relationship with partners and networks but also with the audiences that it had built over that decade.…”

Section: Understanding Complex Organisationsmentioning

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“…These research projects have looked at gallery spaces and sculpture, historic artefacts, refugee arts and music and contemporary studio and arts practice. What has guided these research processes was an idea that experimental moments and spaces, as in the slave ship and the factories of industrial capitalism (see Hudson, 2019), can be decisive for the nature and the trajectory not just of individual human lives but of markets for products and services and of entire civilisations and social formations. In contemporary societies cultural organisations face a set of problems and crises specifically around the kinds of themes we identified in one organisation.…”

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TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation

Hudson

Donkin

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document and describe an omni-disciplinary ethnography of a complex arts and cultural regeneration organisation in Durham (TESTT Space). The organization and its art spaces are hybrid combination tools explicitly designed to test and experiment with ideas, social forms, human interactions and arts practice. Its ground or practice is a repurposed meanwhile space in a city centre embedded in a unique cultural landscape of local communities, a University and a World Heritage Site. The research attempted to understand its groundwork, its interactions and its civic mission and aspirations in a time of radical change and rupture. Design/methodology/approach The authors assumed an ethnographic approach, working with and within this organisation for a year, thinking of the research as embedded, intimate research and committed to social change. It was a work of co-production – working with studio-holders, curators, artists and facilitators using a range of triangulated qualitative research methods. These include structured interviews, auto-ethnography, ethnography of spaces, arts-led research, art as research and research as art. Findings TESTT Space has allowed both the retention of artists in the city and the propulsion of artists into the world. It has offered different ways of engaging in the complex lives of artists and curators, allowing them to test aesthetics and try out new social models. It has thought up its own network as a thinking practice, has developed its own politics, civics and imagined a set of new futures. Originality/value The paper documents interactions and aspirations, describing the lived phenomenological experience of being in this experimental space.

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2019

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“…Importantly, she contends that such practices instantiate structures of feeling that are “sanctioned, reproduced and maintained” (2019, p. 127). Relatedly, Hudson argues that our sensual realm has become entangled with “the material life of capital” (2020, p. 2) in ways that obscure its mode of operation. The senses are also imbricated in how illumination expresses the spatial inequality, stylistic claims of distinction, surveillant technologies, and standardisation discussed above.…”

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Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change

Ebbensgaard

Edensor

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper is concerned with the affective power of light, darkness, and illumination and their role in exposing and obscuring processes of rapid urban change. Little academic attention has focused on how lighting informs multiple, overlapping, and intersecting urban temporalities and mediates our experience of an ever-changing city. This paper foregrounds a walk through the illuminated city at night as an epistemic opportunity to develop an embodied account of material and temporal change in ways that disrupt the aesthetic organisation of the sensible world at night. By detailing the discontinuous experience of walking through differently lit spaces, the paper develops novel ways of conceptualising the experience of urban change that unsettle common understandings of subjectivity, temporality, and the city. The paper draws on a single night's walk from Canning Town to Canary Wharf in east Londonan area that has recently undergone rapid change, including the erection of enclaves of high-rise development. By accentuating the shared experiences of walking with light, we reveal the affective capacities of light and dark to conceal and expose wider material, embodied, and temporal urban changes but also how we might challenge the organisation of the nocturnal field of the sensible.

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Visualising the Empire of Capital

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TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation

TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation

Walking with light and the discontinuous experience of urban change

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