Jane Naylor and Oliver Vodeb: How to Go on an Artstrike?!
The amazing Jane Naylor speaks with Oliver Vodeb about how to go on an Artstrike. Jane reassessed her art practice, went on an Artstrike and developed the concept of *Rt. Find out what this means, and if you could do it yourself. Oh, and another thing we really LOVE: Jane speaks about her work in relation to solidarity and the ephemeral!
Jane Naylor, a Sydney based artist, visual arts teacher and student of the practices of Fluxus goes on a personal and productive Artstrike. She developes *Rt and finds ways to channel her dislike of the Artworld into practices that refuse to be part of the circus. Her work is intimate, relational, funny, serious and beautifully pissed off.
But another thing that interests us are her ideas on how to think about the Artworld critically. Jane developed a conceptual framework of *Rt, which helps us to call a spade a spade or to give you an example: Byr*Rt- Byron Bay art, sold at market stalls has a crossover with m*Rt but with a small "m", to give you just a small taste. But not all is about "bad art", there are concrete strategies how to identify independent *Rt Tactics.
This all of course directly relates to Radical Design, because Jane's "Art" is not "Art", and because every art is designed, even though not all design is "art" and because her work connects us through intimate enounters of our senses and hearts with the potential to come together weaving something lasting intimately for ourselves and between us.
As teased above, her work operates in the space of "solidarity and the ephemeral". Now that relation needs a closer look/ listen. Enjoy the episode!
Check out the episode for more and all of it, except what is written in the book chapter, which you can find below.
There is much more in the original written chapter, and If you want to read the whole chapter in Radical Intimacies, Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities, find more about the book: here.
PODCAST CREDITS:
Hosted by: Oliver Vodeb/ Memefest. The podcast is a collaboration between Memefest and Intellect publishers.
Music: Thanks to Bait for their song Property Law. Two best friends meeting seasonally in bucolic surrounds to generate improvised music. Property Law recognises the Indigenous peoples of the world's relationship to land. As in, "we don't own the land. The land owns us." Each of us is only passing through. Empires, Epochs come & go, but the spirit of the land persists.