Assuming that most people at SOTA went

to university, what would they have done

had they graduated with a debt of nearly
£30,000?

Rachel Coldicutt / @rachelcoldicutt

http://www.manchesterartistsbonfire.blogspot.com/

@MCRArtBonfire  #BurnArt
 “13 ideas I want to kill”

4. That creation happens in the

mind, not the body.

Left by @alikichapple
"We live in a time I think not of mainstream, but
of many streams, or even, if you insist upon a
river of time, that we have come to a delta,
maybe even beyond delta to an ocean which is
going back to the skies."

John Cage on the relationship between the

mainstream and the avant-garde, cited in Alex
Ross’ The Rest is Noise

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

I’ve seen books become shields at the student protests. They were the
opposite of a work of art – or at least the work of art as the spectacle
[the screen of late capitalism] has conceived it.

Can we make art like shields? Like the opposite of weapons - or at least
the opposite of weapons as the state has conceived them?

@hannahnicklin
“13 ideas I want to kill”

9. Branding

Left by @alikichapple
Where I’ve most enjoyed making work #2 :in a
14th century monastery nestling amidst the
flyovers of the Coventry ring road
@vornster / @birdmail
 “13 ideas I want to kill”

13. The Artist as Entrepeneur

Left by @alikichapple
 [The] “Manifesto Club seek funds to
continue campaign against the
government’s points based visa
system - a draconian system that has
led to the exclusion and surveillance
of hundreds of visiting artists and
academics.”

left by AIR artists

http://www.manifestoclub.com/visitingartists
 “13 ideas I want to kill”

8. That composition is more

creative than execution.

Left by @alikichapple
 Shunt Lounge was always one of my favourite
homes for artists. Re-negotiating the relationship
between audience and art in interesting ways

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

 A home might be:

A body A space A place A timespan

An encounter A tangent
 
… and how can we ensure there are more of them?
 
Art education/sharing/opportunities in schools; HEI; &
beyond.
Seed funding for new projects.
Dialogue.

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

 [...] we need to think about how we
prove, or at least support, our claims
about art and culture making
people’s lives better.

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

Where I’ve most enjoyed making work #3 :in
a decommissioned hospital
@vornster / @birdmail
 Artists tend to think of their
own ‘we’ as referring to some
community of artists, rather
than a social class.

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

Art reproduces capitalist life: the basis of alienation is
that we live in service of a thing that we have created.

If we reproduce capitalism in the name of art that

declares itself revolutionary, we’ve lost before we’ve
begun.

We should develop means that are adequate to our

radicalism. I have no clearer insight into how than
anyone else.

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

Why do we presume our business
model has a right to continue?

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

When I'm climbing through the arcane
jungle of impact and assessment, art
reminds me that there are alternatives.
#SOTAflash

@stevegreer
Where I’ve most enjoyed making work #1 : an
underground car park in Scarborough
@vornster / @birdmail
 "Sometimes it seems that all we
need to do is gesture to the
window and ask people to look."

Tim Etchells. Celebrate small gestures.

Art is not a thing, it is a way of looking at
the world

(left anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)

How do we make sure that small is
beautiful - and successful?

Be sure that the experience is

intimately shared - directly, artist to
participant…when Oily Cart had a
max, audience of 2, Lyn Gardner
said they gave ‘more than the NT &
RSC put together’.
#SOTAflash #Utopia #ahome A
nursery for student's kids and
audiences' and ours. A library,
a garden, a shared office.

@alikichapple
how do we use arts to fight the cuts? #SoTAFlash
#Artsterity

@UKuncut
 Having an obvious worthy social
agenda doesn't always=lifechanging
art. Art can empower by revealing
beauty+pushing imagination.
#SOTAflash

@Tanuja_A
 Art IS part of life. R we going 2 ask
children 2 stop drawing, playing, seeing
pics in sky? Isn't very act of imagination
art?
Art helps us see beyond ourselves. Like
science can remind us how small and yet
intimately connected we are.

@Yorkshirebint
 Art IS part of people's lives . We
need to stop talking as if it is 'stuff
that other people do'.

@Tanuja_A
I heard about a beautiful thing. I can’t remember the details -
names, for example - but I saw photographs. Perhaps someone
reading this will know more. But I heard about an artist who draws
on the street with water - paints beautiful pictures onto paving
slabs. This artist works, I seem to remember, in a country with an
oppressive regime, where art is censored. But they have good
weather - it’s often sunny. And he works messages and symbols of
resistance into the water drawings, which then evaporate in the
sun.

@AlexanderKelly
 arts makes lives better: reflection,
provocation, discussion, entertainment,
solace, community, resistance,
wellbeing #SOTAflash #SOTA11

@mostin
A great year long project by Tim Etchells. [...] A kind of deconstruction of our way of seeing
the world.
(shared anonymously on flashconference.co.uk)
 Let's dethrone the artist as lone
genius. Some arts are essentially
communal and collaborative.

@AlikiChapple
Our networks are enriched
through diversity and i believe it
is only through collaborations
which disregard size, profile
and resource that we can have
continue to produce and offer
exemplary cultural experiences

Clare Reddington
Daoism reminds us that there is no
Spring without Winter, no dawn
without the darkest part of night and
so instead of thinking of perpetual
growth and unbridled progress, we
also need to accept that things must
die so that new things can be born.  
It’s the big brushfires that create the
fertile conditions for some seeds to
sprout

www.fearghus.net
Now is the time for us to take ourselves less
seriously. Breathe out. Let it go. Laugh at
ourselves

Katie Day
 Etiquette by Rotozaza

A show that keeps small beautiful

The Arts need to be awkward,
recalcitrant, anarchic: no govt
wants that to be sustainable

@RedLadderTheatr
 Actually ENRON is a good
measure of what's happening
to the arts - commodification,
pursuit of profit, eventual
collapse.

@davidvannon