This exhibition was set-up for one weekend in Liverpool, July 2011 as part of their City of Radicals programme marking the centenary of the first General Strike. It explored new creative strategies that challenge restrictions to cultural production.
Imagine a society in which financial institutions gamble away our money and blame the public when it is gone; where profits are privatised but risk and real cost is socialised. A society in which the arts sector bears the brunt of public-spending cuts because the public are to be anaesthetised and atomised, facilitating complacency with authority and the standardisation of labour. Imagine a place where inequality thwarts social mobility and where privilege creates lasting class divisions...
Imagine an age of austerity. How could the independence of creative expression be asserted in such a dystopia?
The exhibition featured new work from Holly Crawford, Karl Kolley, Paul Matosic, Nabi Nara, Arjuna Neuman, Annick Naour, SilentBill, The Artwertease® and Del Whitticase. The approaches of the selected artists conveyed a subtle range of social, political and cultural messages.
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