Books by Lawrence Bradby
Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life , 2023
We don't know where home is. We know where it used to be but we moved abroad and the feeling of h... more We don't know where home is. We know where it used to be but we moved abroad and the feeling of home didn't come with us. We have a place to live, an awkward narrow house with neighbours and a flourishing fig tree in the garden. It's adequate, but it isn't home, and neither are the things that surround it. That's the point of course. It's all different and the difference presses in on us. Even doing something simple, like buying some stamps or making a hair appointment, there's always a step we didn't know about, a point where we trip up. It's exciting and it's wearing and it's not like home.
Papers by Lawrence Bradby
International Journal of Research in Economics and Social Sciences, Jan 8, 2007
On the morning of 19 May 2005FA Cup Final DayLawrence Bradby, poet and performance maker, and C... more On the morning of 19 May 2005FA Cup Final DayLawrence Bradby, poet and performance maker, and Carl Lavery, teacher and writer, embarked on a Situationist-inspired dérive or drift through Norwich, a city which both of them knew well. During the ...
Rhetoric, Social Value and the Arts, 2017
Many arts organisations rely on freelance artists to act as their public face: to deliver their e... more Many arts organisations rely on freelance artists to act as their public face: to deliver their education programme, to devise and manage community projects and to demonstrate to people how art can be relevant to their lives. While this type of involvement in the arts might be beneficial for the participants, what does it do for the artists involved?
An overview of best practice amongst Early Years educators. A description of how educators can ca... more An overview of best practice amongst Early Years educators. A description of how educators can carry out research alongside the public aspects of their roles in museums and galleries. The challenges of doing this work in a time of on-going cuts to public services.
Conjunctions, 2020
FUNDING STREAMS DESIGNED TO ENABLE WIDER PARTICIPATION WITH CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART OFTEN FAIL TO... more FUNDING STREAMS DESIGNED TO ENABLE WIDER PARTICIPATION WITH CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART OFTEN FAIL TO MEET THEIR OBJECTIVES. FACED WITH THE NEED TO SHOW INCREASED ENGAGEMENT IN RETURN FOR PUBLIC FUNDING, FEAR OF FAILURE HAS LED MANY ORGANISATIONS TO TURN TO WHAT WE DESCRIBE AS THE ‘ART-SPECTACLE’: PUBLIC ARTWORKS DEVELOPED AS A MEANS OF DEMONSTRATING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE ENGAGEMENT WHEN LARGE CROWDS ENCOUNTER AN ART-SPECTACLE? WHEN ART-SPECTACLES APPROPRIATE AN EXISTING CULTURAL FORM AND REBRAND IT AS ‘ART’, BY WHAT CRITERIA CAN IT BE JUDGED A SUCCESS OR FAILURE? OUR DISCUSSION CENTRES ON THE HISTORY TRAIN, AN EVENT THAT FORMED PART OF BRITISH ART SHOW 8 IN NORWICH IN 2016. AS IT RECEIVED FUNDING TO ENGAGE NEW AUDIENCES, WE ASSESS THE HISTORY TRAIN AGAINST THE CRITERIA BY WHICH THE FUNDING WAS AWARDED. WE ALSO LOOK AT THE DEGREE TO WHICH IT MET DEBORD’S (1983) LOGIC OF SPECTACLE AND THE NECESSITY OF VISIBILITY OVER EXPERIENCE.
The National Association for Gallery Education, Jul 1, 2021
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Books by Lawrence Bradby
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