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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220817
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SUMMARY:The Royal Standard: The Royal Standard: Do They Owe Us A Living?
DESCRIPTION:\nDo They Owe Us A Living?\n\n\n 	Wednesday\, August 17\, 20226
 :00 PM \nSaturday\, September 24\, 20225:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganised
  in collaboration with the Art of Management &amp\; Organisation conferenc
 e\, co-hosted by the Bluecoat and the University of Liverpool\, the group 
 exhibition Do They Owe Us A Living? brings together twelve artists and art
 ist collaborations and takes as its point of departure the conference them
 e ‘art-as-activism’. Each artist was asked to respond to the theme of 
 activism within the broader context of the conference.\nThe exhibition fe
 atures a diverse range of practice: from community-focused projects engagi
 ng with care in the workplace and council-approved regeneration programmes
 \; through to artworks directed at the histories of prejudice surrounding 
 different communities\; as well as work that questions the efficacy of art
  to function as an act of political resistance in its vulnerability to pol
 itical co-option\; ‘activism’ proposed less as a given than a complex 
 proposition.\nWhile the Achilles’ heel of activism lies with its suscept
 ibility to sanitisation under capitalism\, and the Achilles’ heel of ‘
 art-as-activism’\, the squaring of aesthetic questions with moral ones\,
  what unites these artists is the way in which they seek to critique life 
 under the market forces of neoliberalism\, shedding light on the grassroo
 ts of lived experience\, in the workplace and beyond\, whilst throwing ca
 ution to the ‘activist’ tag.\nInspired by the 1978 song by the punk ba
 nd Crass\, from which it takes its name\, Do They Owe Us A  Living? sets 
 out to reveal\, as an exhibition and idea\, how any “living“ owed is r
 egistered solely with quality of life\, as distinct from the ubiquitous cu
 lture of cost-benefit analysis and transactional thinking that surrounds u
 s.\nArtists: Beagles &amp\; Ramsay\, Terry Bond\, Dreamchord (nil00 &amp\;
  Yank Scally)\, Pil &amp\; Galia Kollectiv\, Rachel  Garfield\, Julika Gi
 ttner\, Al Hopwood\, Sumuyya Khader\, Manual Labours (Sophie Hope &amp\; J
 enny  Richards)\, Chad McCail\, Ian Monroe\, Simon Willems.\nCurated by S
 imon Willems\, artist and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Unive
 rsity of  Reading.\nPrivate View: 17th August 6-8pm\nOpen: Thursday\, Fri
 day\, Saturday 12-5 pm from 18th August - 24th September.\nTalks:\nSaturda
 y 20th August - 11am\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:The Royal Standard\, Northern Lights\, Cains Brewery Village\, Gra
 fton Street\, Liverpool\, L8 5SD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
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