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What is gentrification? How far are artists complicit - wittingly or not - in processes of social cleansing? What can artists do to fight it? Juliet talks to artist-academic Alberto Duman (http://www.albertoduman.me.uk/main.htm) and 'Savage Messiah' author/artist Laura Grace Ford (http://lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.co.uk/) about gentrification, and the role of artists within it.

WORKS REFERENCED

Colouring in Culture - http://colouringinculture.org/

#NovaraFM on decapitalism - http://novaramedia.com/2017/12/17/nina-power-decapitalism/

Agit-train (Dziga Vertov & Aleksandr Medvdkin) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agit-train

Archigram, Plug-In City - https://www.archdaily.com/399329/ad-classics-the-plug-in-city-peter-cook-archigram

Walter Benjamin

Embassy Court (Brighton) - http://www.embassycourt.org.uk/

Mark Fisher (k-punk) on rave - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/009782.html

RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class

Walter Gropius

Stewart Home - 'Keep Hackney crap' - http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2009/08/keeping-hackney-crap/

ANTHONY ILES & J. BERRY SLATER, No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City (2009) - http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/no-room-to-move-radical-art-and-regenerate-city

JANE JACOBS, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

Fredric Jameson

Huw Lemmey - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/huw-lemmey

GAVIN MUELLER, 'Liberalism and Gentrification' - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/liberalism-and-gentrification/

DOUGLAS MURPHY, Last Futures (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/13/last-futures-douglas-murphy-review

ALISON & PETER SMITHSON, Robin Hood Gardens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5thwHTYNk

John Wild - http://www.codedgeometry.net/johnwild/

The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for those hoping for an end to utilitarian approaches to culture and swingeing cuts to arts funding. This month, Juliet talks to Loraine Leeson, Hassan Mahamdallie and Hilary Wainwright about the concept of cultural democracy, the recent The World Transformed conference and the Arts for Labour initiative. What are Jeremy Corbyn's arts policies, and how are they informed by the anti-austerity movement? What has been learned from the Greater London Council's arts programmes of the 1980s, or the Attlee government's cultural policies? How did writers and thinkers such as William Morris, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams establish a long British tradition of 'cultural democracy', and what can we take from them in the 21st century?

WORKS REFERENCED:

Campaign to save The Cinema Museum: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk

'A Creative Future for All' - https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/news/a-creative-future-for-all

The Great Exhibition of the North - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43324069

The Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company - http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/gay-sweatshop/

LORAINE LEESON, Art : Process : Change (2017) - https://www.routledge.com/Art--Process--Change-Inside-a-Socially-Situated-Practice/Leeson/p/book/9781138670631

KEN LOACH, The Spirit of '45 (2017) - http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-spirit-45

HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE on William Morris - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1996/isj2-071/mahamdallie.htm

WILLIAM MORRIS, News from Nowhere (1890) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/17/guardian190-william-morris-news-from-nowhere

HILARY WAINWRIGHT, A New Politics from the Left (2017) - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/persuasive-points-on-new-politics-from-the-left

American writer, publisher and filmmaker Chris Kraus joins Juliet to talk about the difficulties of experimental filmmaking, her work with Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series, critical responses to her work on Kathy Acker and the pressures of mainstream success.

WORKS REFERENCED:

Works by Chris Kraus

Books

CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997)

CHRIS KRAUS, Aliens and Anorexia (2000)

CHRIS KRAUS, Torpor (2006)

CHRIS KRAUS, Summer of Hate (2012)

CHRIS KRAUS, L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles (2005)

CHRIS KRAUS, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (2004)

CHRIS KRAUS, Where Art Belongs (2011)

CHRIS KRAUS, After Kathy Acker (2017)

Films

In Order to Pass (1982)

Terrorists in Love (1985)

Foolproof Illusion (1986)

How to Shoot a Crime (1987)

Gravity & Grace (1996)

Other works

PENNY ARCADE, Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (2009) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=213

Bruce Benderson - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=188

BERNADETTE CORPORATION, Reena Spaulings - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=26

ALBERT CAMUS, L'Étranger (The Outsider) (1942)

CHARLES DICKENS, Bleak House (1852-53) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House

Marguerite Duras

Justin Fashanu - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/05/justin-fashanu-and-politics-memory

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, L'Éducation sentimentale (Sentimental Education) (1869) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Education

Emily Gould

Pierre Guyotat - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=51

RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, The Connecting Door (1962) - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-connecting-door/

SHEILA HETI, How Should Be a Person Be? - http://www.sheilaheti.com/how-should-a-person-be/

Michel Houellebecq

I Love Dick (TV series)

Gary Indiana

THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE, The Coming Insurrection (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=135

Glenn Beck talks about 'The Coming Insurrection' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY7Yvd3cuY0

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Goodbye to Berlin (1939)

LARS IYER, Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012) & Exodus (2013) - http://spurious.typepad.com/

JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/06/juliet-jacques-trans-a-memoir

JULIET JACQUES, You Will Be Free (2017) - http://www.studiovoltaire.org/exhibitions/archive/juliet-jacques/

B. S. JOHNSON, Trawl (1966) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2336211.Trawl

Franz Kafka

Wyndham Lewis

Sylvère Lotringer

COOKIE MUELLER, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302243.Walking_Through_Clear_Water_in_a_Pool_Painted_Black

COOKIE MUELLER & VITTORIO SCARPATI, Putti's Pudding (1989)

Alain Robbe-Grillet

NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/

Claude Simon

MICHAEL SNOW, Wavelength (1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOzOVLxbCE

LINDA STUPART, 'Chris Kraus and the Empathetic Exchange of Objects' in MIRA MATTAR (ed.), You Must Make Your Death Public: A Collection of Texts and Media in the Works of Chris Kraus - http://www.metamute.org/sites/www.metamute.org/files/You-Must-Make-Your-Death-Public-Chris-Kraus-9781906496647.pdf

Lynne Tillman - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=162

JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Self-Portrait Abroad

Transparent (TV series)

MASHA TUPITSYN, Beauty Talk & Monsters (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=163

Jackie Wang

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side (1991) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=168

Kate Zambreno

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remained hotly debated and, at times, poorly understood. Here, Juliet Jacques welcomes writer/critics Maria Chehonadskih, Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism (2009), Landscapes of Communism (2015) and The Chaplin Machine (2016)) and Ilia Rogatchevski to discuss the cultural legacy of the Soviet period and challenge Western preconceptions about the relationship between art and politics in the former USSR, from the Constructivist energy of the 1920s and imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin, all the way through to the underground art movements of the 1980s.

WORKS REFERENCED:

Maria Chehonadskih on Pussy Riot – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/what-is-pussy-riots-idea

Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8

SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Aleksandr Nevsky (1938)

SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Ivan the Terrible (Parts I & II) (1944-1958)

SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)

EVALD ILYENKOV (Soviet theorist) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/

ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV (Moscow Conceptual School) - https://ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/

VITALI KOMAR (Sots Art founder) - http://www.komarandmelamid.org/

MIKHAIL LIFSHITZ(Soviet philosopher) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/12/15/art-is-dead-long-live-art-mikhail-lifshitz-on-karl-marxs-philosophy-of-art/

EDUARD LIMONOV (National Bolshevik Party)

CHRIS MARKER, The Last Bolshevik (1993) - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-happiness-is-making-a-bolshevik-laugh-1459870.html

VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, '150,000,000' (1919-1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/150_000_000

VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1929) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bathhouse

VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bedbug (1928) - http://snoowilson.co.uk/The%20Bedbug.pdf

ALEKSANDR MEDVEDKIN (Soviet filmmaker) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin

Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuanian filmmaker/artist)

YURI OLESHA, Envy (1927) - https://godsavethetsar.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/dont-laugh-andrei-petrovich-yuri-oleshas-envy/

VIKTOR PELEVIN (Russian author)

BORIS PILNYAK, The Naked Year (1928) - http://www.overlookpress.com/ardis/naked-year-1.html

ANDREI PLATONOV, The Foundation Pit (1930) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Pit

ABRAM ROOM, Bed and Sofa (1927) - http://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1339/film-club-sofa-and-bed-abram-room

VLADIMIR SOROKIN (Russian author)

VLADIMIR TATLIN, Letatlin – http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-birdlike-soviet-flying-machine-that-never-quite-took-off

VLADIMIR TATLIN, 'Monument to the Third International' (1919-1920, unbuilt)

DZIGA VERTOV, The Eleventh Year (1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSve8HNjZ4Y

DZIGA VERTOV, Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1930) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUInm2dC6Ug

DZIGA VERTOV, Kino-Pravda (1920s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0SJyLX9MgQ

DZIGA VERTOV, Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

DZIGA VERTOV, Stride, Soviet! (1926) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILG1_ceQCzE

DZIGA VERTOV, Three Songs of Lenin (1934) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66SYdygrpE

VOINA, phallus on Liteiny Bridge, St. Petersburg - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/12/voina-art-terrorism

What are the uses of cultural criticism? How does it improve art and artists, and how much does it impede them? How does criticism intersect with political ideology? What's changed in the age of the internet?

In our pilot episode, Juliet Jacques discusses the uses, possibilities and limits of arts criticism with Fatema Ahmed, who has held editorial positions at Apollo, Granta and Icon, and contributed to numerous publications, and Daniela Cascella, author of En Abîme (2012) and F.M.R.L. (2015), both published by Zero, and Singed (2017, Equus Press).

Works referenced:

NAM JUNE PAIK, Suite (212) (1975) - https://www.eai.org/titles/suite-212

NAM JUNK PAIK, 'Media Planning for the Post-Industrial Society' (1974) - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/33/

FENNESZ, 'Aus' (from Hotel Paral.lel, 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4WNWhE45gc

BRIAN DILLON, Essayism (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/23/essayism-brian-dillon-review-essays-michel-de-montaigne-georges-perec-joan-didion

KATE ZAMBRENO, Heroines (2013) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/heroines

CHRIS KRAUS, collected works and films - https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/design/chris-kraus-films.html

OLIVIA LAING, The Lonely City (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/28/the-lonely-city-olivia-laing-edward-hopper-andy-warhol

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) and La Ricotta (short film in Ro.G.Pa.G, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_od3BxJ2W0

ELENA FERRANTE, La frantumaglia (Fragments)

T. S. ELIOT, The Uses of Poetry and the Uses of Criticism - http://tseliot.com/prose/the-use-of-poetry-and-the-use-of-criticism

ANATOLI LUNACHARSKY, 'Theses on the Problems of Marxist Criticism' (1928) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lunachar/1928/criticism.htm

HELENE CIXOUS, 'The Laugh of the Medusa' (1975) - https://artandobjecthood.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/cixous_the_laugh_of_the_medusa.pdf

Ready Steady Book - http://www.readysteadybook.com

This Space - http://this-space.blogspot.co.uk

ANN QUIN - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/may/08/whocaresaboutannquin

ELIZABETH HARDWICK - Seduction and Betrayal (1973) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1973/05/31/seduction-and-betrayal-i/

ELFRIEDE JELINEK - Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2004) - https://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=721

INGEBORG BACHMANN - 'Literature as Utopia' - http://shirtysleeves.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/a-translation-of-literatur-als-utopie.html

GEORGE ELIOT - 'Silly Novels by Silly Lady Novelists' (1856) - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/silly-novels-by-lady-novelists-essay-by-george-eliot

BHANU KAPIL - Ban en Banlieue (2015) - http://www.nightboat.org/title/ban-en-banlieue