Policy, Intervention and Art Documentation of: “A working session on Art and Policy,” 2–4pm, Friday 20th July 2018, workshop, Goldsmiths PhD Art, Installation Series 2018   Participants: Tom Clark – Workshop Convener (Goldsmiths, Dept. Art) Susannah Haslam (RCA / Independent researcher) Lucy Lopez (BCU / Eastside Projects / Grand Union) Claire Louise Staunton (RCA) Edgar Schmitz (Goldsmiths, Dept. Art)   What have art and policy to do with one another? Policy is the instruction book for how the image of the institution is brought into being; policy defines the conditions of participation and the parameters of its function. Policy […]

How to think beyond the rationalised / rationalising frame of infrastructures as they are generally characterised from systems perspectives? Speaking on the Talking Politics podcast (28 November 2018) about fear, faith, hope and religion, US philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes an important case for the importance of the non-rational when considering how institutions might structure the political and its boundaries, especially when considering forms of rationalisation such as policy. Discussing the question of faith in the future in situations where the widespread practicing of religion has become absent, particularly in Europe, the host David Runciman points out a view “from inside […]