Social Art

Dan and Lloyd wrap up their discussion of Bedford Happy and talk about the importance of getting help and assistance both with the delivery of a project and with making meaningful documentation.

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• #thanetcleanup
• #bedfordhappy – creating a brand
• Macmillan in Bedford
• Cardington Sheds
• Jet Aircraft Testing
• Bedford Arts Choir
• “Austin Powers” in Bedford Library
• Where’s The Artist?
• Charlotte Tenneson
• Lloyd’s #BedfordHappy video
• Festival of Britain
• The Workshop 24 Book
• Deller’s Battle of Orgreave
• Amplified
• Appetite Stoke
• Summer of Colour
• National Archives – Art & Archives
• Longbridge Public Art Project

Lloyd gets a bit ranty about presenting complex narratives as a battle between good and evil. Someone wants to make lunch in Lloyd’s podcasting studio. Dan talks about the campaign to get artists paid. But we round up quite harmoniously with a call for guests to join us in our next conversation.

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• Longbridge Public Art Project
• Bournville College
• Top Gear Stunt – British Motor Manufacturers

Luckily Lloyd’s ranting was interrupted by Laura’s need for lunch

• Dan’s protest materials
• Michelin Tyres in Stoke
• Minton Tile Works
• Artists Newsletter
• Dan’s post on #payingartists
• Appetite Stoke
• #payingartists on twitter
• Dom & Ash from Ludic Rooms
• Katie Smith

Let us know if you want to talk to us on a future podcast!

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Ramble, ramble ramble...
– Come and see us both at Bedford Happy on 29th March
– Subscribe on iTunes and leave us some feedback
– Cat playing invisible bongos
– Bedford’s favourite fudge
– Buy Dan’s book, read it, do what it says
– And this one too
– Ebbsfleet Garden City
– Ebbsfleet United FC
– The Empty Homes Agency
– The Garden City Movement
– The Primitive Methodists
– Lloyd at the TPAS unconference
– What’s an unconference?
– Open Rights Group
– Lloyd’s American Trip
– Lloyd on the road in the UK
– Workshop 24
– London Social Media Cafe Redux
– Worthing Open House Trail
– Pop Up People Report
– See Dan on 4th April – New Ways of Living @ WiseWords
– The home of this podcast

Lloyd and Dan swap todo lists and realise there’s even more to be done than ever!

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• 45, Bill Drummond
• Cultural Value & Social Capital Report (PDF)
• Jon Hickman on Lloyd’s (and others’) use of Social Capital
• Is Gentrification Killing Brixton Market (Evening Std)
• ORG’s coverage of the DRIP Act
• Navigating FOI – What Do They Know?
• MPs talking about forcibly feeding “Suffragist Prisoners” in 1914
• The Flaneur’s Interview with Dan about London Rd
• Emma Bridgewater Mugs
• Lloyd’s Work In Progress presentation

This morning I had a skype conversation with my friend and oftentimes collaborator, Dan Thompson. We talked about what we’ve been doing and stuff and then got into the subject of social art, what it is, how you pay for it, who can do it, etc. It’s not a conversation that’s finished, we’ll be doing more of these, I’m sure.

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Show Notes

• David Cameron on the phone #davecalls
• Bedford Happy on tumblr
• 29th March do for Bedford Happy
• Arcadia Est. 1905
• Apologies for the coffee slurping...
• The Powell-Cotton Trunk #kyokent
• The Story
• Conway Hall
• Humphrey Lyttelton at Conway Hall
• Russell Davies’s Interesting2007
• Catherine Bennett – The Future
• Bryony Kimmings on Art Funding
• Dan’s take on funding social art
• Ministry of Stories
• Gibson on Bohemias
• the empty shops network
• Lloyd on social art
• Pseud’s Corner
• Jeremy Deller
• Hmmm.... needs jingles and a less abrupt ending