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| − | '''Anthony Davies''' (b 1965) is a [[London]] based writer, independent researcher and organiser, currently working in the Fine Art department at Central Saint Martins College, and with the [https://www.wealthofnegations.org/ Wealth of Negations] [https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/please-take-generously ] group, coordinating communications for the migrant-led [https://www.caiwu.org.uk/ Cleaners & Allied Independent Workers Union] (CAIWU). | + | '''Anthony Davies''' (b 1965) is a [[London]] based writer, independent researcher and organiser, currently working in the Fine Art department at Central Saint Martins College, and with the [https://www.wealthofnegations.org/ Wealth of Negations] [https://www.wealthofnegations.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/terms-and-conditions_.pdf ] [https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/collection/artwork/please-take-generously ] group, coordinating communications for the migrant-led [https://www.caiwu.org.uk/ Cleaners & Allied Independent Workers Union] (CAIWU). |
As a writer on art, politics and economics Davies has published in numerous journals. In the late 1990s, along with Simon Ford, he developed a series of [http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/article/art-capital-by-simon-ford-and-anthony-davies-february-1998/ critical debates] [http://infopool.antipool.org/artfut.htm] [http://www.societyofcontrol.com/research/davis_ford.htm] on young British art (yBa) and the Creative Industries, introducing the dystopian figure of the cultural entrepreneur or ‘Culturepreneur’. This was followed by a series of [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/culture-clubs/ articles] [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/basic-instinct-trauma-and-retrenchment-2000-4] [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/take-me-im-yours-neoliberalising-cultural-institution] in ''[[Mute Magazine]]'' on the neoliberal transformation of cultural and educational institutions and later texts including [http://societyofcontrol.com/llibrary/culture/davies_dillemuth_jakobsen_TINA1_future_selforganised.htm "There is No Alternative: The Future is Self-Organised Parts 1] [http://ml.virose.pt/blogs/texts_14/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/davies_dillemuth_jakobsen_TINA2_april2012.pdf & 2"], co-written with Stephan Dillemuth and [[Jakob Jakobsen]], can be found in various publications. | As a writer on art, politics and economics Davies has published in numerous journals. In the late 1990s, along with Simon Ford, he developed a series of [http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/article/art-capital-by-simon-ford-and-anthony-davies-february-1998/ critical debates] [http://infopool.antipool.org/artfut.htm] [http://www.societyofcontrol.com/research/davis_ford.htm] on young British art (yBa) and the Creative Industries, introducing the dystopian figure of the cultural entrepreneur or ‘Culturepreneur’. This was followed by a series of [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/culture-clubs/ articles] [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/basic-instinct-trauma-and-retrenchment-2000-4] [https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/take-me-im-yours-neoliberalising-cultural-institution] in ''[[Mute Magazine]]'' on the neoliberal transformation of cultural and educational institutions and later texts including [http://societyofcontrol.com/llibrary/culture/davies_dillemuth_jakobsen_TINA1_future_selforganised.htm "There is No Alternative: The Future is Self-Organised Parts 1] [http://ml.virose.pt/blogs/texts_14/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/davies_dillemuth_jakobsen_TINA2_april2012.pdf & 2"], co-written with Stephan Dillemuth and [[Jakob Jakobsen]], can be found in various publications. | ||
In addition to Wealth of Negations, Davies is also a founder member of [[MayDay Rooms]] (2011-2016), an educational charity based in London and set up as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements and experimental culture. He has co-organised or participated in a range of self-organised initiatives including Posterstudio, [http://infopool.antipool.org/pool1.htm/ Infopool], [http://cfu.antipool.org/ Copenhagen Free University], [https://issuu.com/antipool/docs/unionising Flaxman Lodge], [https://wallsandspace.wordpress.com/ The School of Walls and Space] [https://www.dismalgarden.com/index.php?q=pedagogy/going-fragile-1-2-and-summaskool], [https://www.metamute.org/services/openmute-press/economy-has-left-building Rosa Kerosene], [https://10thflr.wordpress.com/ 10th Floor] and more recently, with [[James Stevens]] and [https://reverso.resourceforge.org/ Reverso], set up a DIY wireless communications and self-archiving platform with autonomous cultural spaces in the Peripheries/Favelas and [https://reverso.resourceforge.org/reverso/ocupacao-maua/ Workers Occupied Houses] of São Paulo, Brazil. | In addition to Wealth of Negations, Davies is also a founder member of [[MayDay Rooms]] (2011-2016), an educational charity based in London and set up as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements and experimental culture. He has co-organised or participated in a range of self-organised initiatives including Posterstudio, [http://infopool.antipool.org/pool1.htm/ Infopool], [http://cfu.antipool.org/ Copenhagen Free University], [https://issuu.com/antipool/docs/unionising Flaxman Lodge], [https://wallsandspace.wordpress.com/ The School of Walls and Space] [https://www.dismalgarden.com/index.php?q=pedagogy/going-fragile-1-2-and-summaskool], [https://www.metamute.org/services/openmute-press/economy-has-left-building Rosa Kerosene], [https://10thflr.wordpress.com/ 10th Floor] and more recently, with [[James Stevens]] and [https://reverso.resourceforge.org/ Reverso], set up a DIY wireless communications and self-archiving platform with autonomous cultural spaces in the Peripheries/Favelas and [https://reverso.resourceforge.org/reverso/ocupacao-maua/ Workers Occupied Houses] of São Paulo, Brazil. | ||
Revision as of 22:09, 27 February 2023
Anthony Davies (b 1965) is a London based writer, independent researcher and organiser, currently working in the Fine Art department at Central Saint Martins College, and with the Wealth of Negations [1] [2] group, coordinating communications for the migrant-led Cleaners & Allied Independent Workers Union (CAIWU).
As a writer on art, politics and economics Davies has published in numerous journals. In the late 1990s, along with Simon Ford, he developed a series of critical debates [3] [4] on young British art (yBa) and the Creative Industries, introducing the dystopian figure of the cultural entrepreneur or ‘Culturepreneur’. This was followed by a series of articles [5] [6] in Mute Magazine on the neoliberal transformation of cultural and educational institutions and later texts including "There is No Alternative: The Future is Self-Organised Parts 1 & 2", co-written with Stephan Dillemuth and Jakob Jakobsen, can be found in various publications.
In addition to Wealth of Negations, Davies is also a founder member of MayDay Rooms (2011-2016), an educational charity based in London and set up as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements and experimental culture. He has co-organised or participated in a range of self-organised initiatives including Posterstudio, Infopool, Copenhagen Free University, Flaxman Lodge, The School of Walls and Space [7], Rosa Kerosene, 10th Floor and more recently, with James Stevens and Reverso, set up a DIY wireless communications and self-archiving platform with autonomous cultural spaces in the Peripheries/Favelas and Workers Occupied Houses of São Paulo, Brazil.
