Podcasts and Video Lectures

In an effort to make MAWA’s programming more widely accessable, we are recording some artist lectures and artist bootcamps.  

Artist Bootcamp with Mary Reid: The Studio Visit

Our first offering is Mary Reid’s Artist Bootcamp from November 2011 on The Studio Visit.  

Video: The Studio Visit with Mary Reid

First Friday with Milena Placentile: What’s up with the neoliberalization of culture? … And why does it matter even if you consider your practice apolitical?

As the public sphere shrinks to become little more than a place for commercial transaction, governments cutting cultural funding and other public benefits recommend corporate sponsorship instead. What motivated this transformation? What is at stake when we agree to frame our work according to economic outcomes? How can we keep an eye on the big picture?

Milena Placentile is a curator, writer and researcher concerned with socially and politically motivated artistic practices, audience experience and cultural policy. After time spent as a guest researcher at Konstfack University College of Art, Craft and Design in Stockholm, she is now working on a resource for activist artists and their allies.

Missed the Talk or want to visit it again?  

Click on the links to read Milena’s lecture and view the slides she presented:  

What’s up with the neoliberalization of culture
What’s up with the neoliberalization of culture – slides_Part1
What’s up with the neoliberalization of culture – slides _Part2
What’s up with the neoliberalization of culture – slides_Part3