Seminar 1: Questions and Answers

Seminar 1: Aesthetics and Ethics

I would be interested to hear a little bit more about what you mean by adjacency.

Ed Carroll, City Art Centre Dublin

What qualifies these transactions as art in your view?

Kerstin Mey, University of Ulster

Platform spun off a micro-hydro business as a result of exploring the water in London– Why is that achievement more readily discussed ? Is it too functional?

Chris Fremantle, Independent Arts Consultant

Are artists agents of cultural resistance or critical practitioners?

Stephen Gray, Aberdeenshire Council

How do you compare the development process and the results of art? Are these two separate aesthetics?

Keith Donnelly. South Lanarkshire Council

What is art and what is not art?

Ruth Barker, Glasgow based artist and writer

When do artistic interventions run the risk of aestheticising dissent and create the risk of an indignity of speaking for others?

Adele Patrick, Womens’ Library, Glasgow

Who speaks for whom, where?

Suzanne Lacy (response)

Does the notion of the unforeseen, the indefinable or unpredictable as an ethical event (Levinas), fit into this type of artwork?

Brian Grassom, artist and post doctoral researcher

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