Your contributions highlight which existing ideas are most important to artists right now, and encourage us to imagine new approaches and to get us thinking about how these strategies could be realised.
Explore how artists on Twitter responded to some key questions:
Do you think that Universal Basic Income (UBI) would make your artistic/creative practice more sustainable?#RadicalStructures
— Season Butler (@season_butler) May 17, 2021
Which bygone countercultures deserve a revival?
Or counterculture lessons we’d be wise to remind ourselves of today?
Any current countercultures you see as a guiding light?
Misunderstood movements that deserve a signal boost?#RadicalStructures
— Season Butler (@season_butler) May 18, 2021
What would allow you to practice your art with joy, to thrive as a human being while working as an artist?#RadicalStructures
— Season Butler (@season_butler) May 19, 2021
Other things!
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Artist support
Netherlands Sharing: Communities & Resilience
It was lovely to get a glimpse into what our Netherlands-based residency artists have been up to during their stay with us, at their sharing event on Friday. Chiara Tammaro, Tom Dijkstra and Sijas de Groot stayed with us over the past two weeks at Convention House, and over their time discovered Leeds, studios in the city, and local communities.
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A Night at The Plaza: Exploring the History of The Plaza
Well, what a night! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the wonderful A Night at The Plaza with Harry Clayton-Wright.
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The Do - 30 Years of East Street Arts
A few weeks ago we celebrated 30 years of East Street Arts with a good old knees up. It was also a wonderful way to welcome our new Executive Director Anita Kumari, and say a fond farewell to co-founder Karen Watson.
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Artist Mohammad Barrangi’s large-scale murals come to the streets of Leeds
This December, we're working with Leeds-based, Iranian-born illustrator and printmaker Mohammad Barrangi to bring four large-scale paper murals to the streets of Leeds.
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Check in at the Art Hostel: The Rainbow Lodge by ViDa
We’re checking in at the Art Hostel, highlighting how incredible the rooms and spaces are. Next, we’re looking at Room 7, ViDa’s peaceful The Rainbow Lodge.
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Artist support
Three Netherlands-based artists join us for two-week residencies
In partnership with LEEDS 2023 and the Netherlands Embassy, this week we welcome three Netherlands-based artists to Leeds for two-week residencies based in our art and tech hub, Convention House.