On 19th November 2010, as part of The Politics & Aesthetics Reading Group we worked with Maresa MacKeith and Ange Taggart, broadcasting on a temporary pirate radio station our responses to texts by Maresa and Ernst Bloch. This was part of Homeland a series of transmissions organised by Charlotte Morgan and No Fixed Abode, featuring:
Black Dogs, Spartacus Chetwynd, Stephen Connolly, Freee, Toby Huddlestone, A Place of Their Own, The Politics and Aesthetics Reading Group with Maresa MacKeith and Ange Taggart, Becky Shaw, and Dan Smith.
It is not enough to portray what exists, it is necessary to think what is wished for and what is possible.
The Politics and Aesthetics Reading Group is a collective based in Liverpool which meets regularly to read/think and take action. It was initiated by Lorena Rivero de Beer and the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home with the aim of creating a space that supports the reading and dissemination of philosophical/political theory. For the first time the reading group will be collaborating with Nottingham-based social justice campaigner and writer Maresa MacKeith, and artist/activist Ange Taggart. Maresa is Co-Founder of young peoples' inclusion collective One-For-All and currently leads HobNobs, an initiative for the empowerment of teenagers who talk or not. Having worked for many years in family support and community work Ange is now best known for her unauthorised interventions and collaborations celebrating dissent as founder of My Dads Strip Club. In response to Bloch's writing on The True Architect in The Principle of Hope, Volume 3, together the reading group, Maresa and Ange will explore notions of humanity, hope, vulnerablity and capital.
These broadcasts ran alongside a day-long workshop at Sheffield University organised jointly by the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies and the Bakhtin Centre.
Maresa MacKeith's story (6m07s)
Discussion part one (7m12s)
Discussion part three (3m09s)
Discussion part three (10m15s)
Related links:
Visit Charlotte Morgan's website
Visit the Ernst blog
Visit the No Fixed Abode website