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Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

Fair Play attempts a complex thesis interrogating the quality of 'participation' in the 'social turn' in contemporary art and performance as enhanced and delimited not simply by the art itself, but by a series of crucial contextualising material conditions including labour, cultural policy, spatial arrangements and finance. Extensive research materials analysed range across those areas and include policy documents, journalism, critical literatures from numerous fields and emerging art/performance practices produced by individuals, groups and major institutions. The project focuses on 1997-the present, but extends back to the foundation of the UK welfare state and, especially, to the Thatcher era.