New York City Public Artist in Residence for 2022-23, Kameron Neal
An interview with Kameron Neal, a Brooklyn based artist who is working with the New York City government to reclaim and repurpose NYPD’s pervasive and invasive surveillance footage from the 1950s-90s.
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What can people involved in evidence and policy learn from a neon soaked arts-led entertainment space in the New Mexico desert? I visited Meow Wolf to find out.
Read MoreThis article, the fourth in a series on the role of art in policymaking, situates real life artworks in a theoretical art-policy matrix. It starts by describing two case studies - Blue Planet II and The Museum of Extraordinary Objects - in more detail, before outlining nineteen other artworks, all which, in some way, link to policy.
Read MoreThis blog looks at how policies are made and what role art may play in that process, if any. It proposes an art-policy matrix, matching some of the effects of art to stages in the policy process.
Read MoreWhy would it even matter if art or culture had a role in policy? As a policymaker of 15 years experience (as well as being a practising visual artist), I acknowledge that this is something I take for granted. This blog attempts to dig a little deeper, and consider: what ‘policy’ actually is, the relationship between art/culture and policy; whether policy actually matters.
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Images: Textile artwork from MITHILAsmita, displayed and described by Ihitashri Shandilya (top left); View out of window of Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire (top centre); Unsighted drawing of Eduardo Carvalho of Brazil’s Museum of Tomorrow (top right); Pattern, Eynsham Hall (centre left); Redwood, Eynsham Hall (centre); Wall, Eynsham Hall (centre right); The Web of Empire, Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1902) (lower left); View of rain, Eynsham Hall (lower centre); View of rain, Eynsham Hall (lower right)
Visual week notes for period up to 5th October, providing some visual highlights from the Clore Leadership residential, a Leadership scheme I am fortunate enough to be part of for 2019-20.
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