Newsletter #1 Feb 2025
It was a profound way to articulate the problems experienced by neurodivergent people in a neurotypical world.
Praxis #2
The Art World reflects the dominant social and political values of our capitalist society. It is controlled by elitist systems, upheld by galleries, art organisations, universities and the art 'heroes' who yield power, wealth and mysticism.
Praxis #1
Criticality, in any art and/or educative endeavour that seeks to encourage transformation, is vital and without it we'll just keep spinning around in the sameness of the status quo for ever.
Why I think the economic argument for creativity is killing creativity.
Creativity is part of the solution, just not the notion of creativity the mainstream seems to uphold. Like Karen Barad says: 'an invitation to live justly is written into the very matter of being.'
A suspension of time
What does it mean to suspend our mechanistic experience of time in a capitalist society? and why is it important to create spaces that resist the more commonly regarded, quantitative understanding of time?
the Dan Scott episode
Dan is an artist working with sound, music, and performance. His work often creates sonic communities, using sound-making, aurality research and listening as methodologies for connecting people.
Confronting discomfort
How can I be sure my intellectual and professional pursuits are motivated by and acting for the social justice cause I claim to be working for, if I remain in ‘comfortable’ spaces that reflect my own experiences?
Dialogue pt 1
After all nothing exists in a vacuum and in any existential quest we would be fools to focus solely on ourself alone. We are always in relationship with.
Socially engaged art
Kester advocates for change happening within the systems and structures and in dialogue with communities and participants
Sonic Agency
we live in a world dominated by a ‘visual-centric’ understanding of the world and by emphasising the visual (social media; advertising; education etc) we numb our sonic sensibilities and thus ‘tune out’ from a sense and dimension of the world through sound.
Some thoughts on being an artist educator...
How do we sustain reflexive and continually responsive practice in the face of uncertainty and the fragile systems around us?