{"id":5118,"date":"2019-03-11T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2020-01-15T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T16:04:45","slug":"radical-politics-by-the-seaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2019\/03\/11\/radical-politics-by-the-seaside\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Politics by the Seaside"},"content":{"rendered":"

From David Bates \u2013 Professor in Contemporary Political Thought at CCCU<\/strong><\/p>\n

Students from the third year module Radical Political Thought enjoyed a trip to the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate on 7 March.<\/p>\n

The visit sought to interrogate the political basis of the contemporary exhibitions \u2013 helped greatly by our wonderful tour guide.<\/p>\n

Starting with Cornelia Parker\u2019s \u2018Perpetual Canon?, we asked:\u00a0How does the work \u2013 of sixty flattened instruments from a brass band \u2013 allow us to think about the historical erosion of working class communities in the epoch of neoliberalism?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Moving on, we explored the exhibition: \u2018A place that exists only in moonlight: Katie Paterson and JMW Turner\u2019. The work involves a subversive reintegration of the arts and sciences in order to interrogate a certain idea of light in space.\u00a0 In a world where forms of practice have become atomised in service of profit rather than knowledge, this reintegration is immediately political.<\/p>\n

Finally, we explored \u2018we made this\u2019. This was a collection of work by people in prison, young offender institutions, secure hospitals, or those on probation in Kent and Sussex includes sculpture, paintings and poetry. The politics of the very fact of this exhibition should at least be clear.<\/p>\n

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