Hi all, Some of you on this list may be interested ;-) Furtherfield and Contemporary Art Culture - Where We Are Now I discussFurtherfield’s role and direction as a rhizomatic arts collective. He argues that the mainstream art world is becoming less relevant in contemporary life. He presents a selection of artworks, projects and events shown in their public gallery in Finsbury Park over the past 2 years and discusses Furtherfield's new lab space, the Furtherfield Commons. This presentation was given at the ICA, London and to students at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester in late November 2103. http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/furtherfield-and-contemporary-... "Humanity needs new strategies for social and material renewal and to develop more diverse and lively ecologies of ideas, occupations and values. It is no longer critical, innovative, experimental, avant-garde, visionary, evolutionary, or imaginative to ignore these large issues of the day. If we as an arts organization, shy away from what other people are experiencing in their daily lives and do not examine, represent and respect their stories, we quite rightly should be considered as part of an irrelevant elite, and seen as saying nothing to most people." Wishing you all well. marc