Una Henry:  The Politics of Knowledge That Leads Elsewhere.  “it is the artworld that negotiated the delivery of ideas from the university to protest movements” Irit Rogoff
As protest movements fill the streets of Turkey, while major social movements continue to unfold across Europe and the Middle East, it is understandable that the ‘common sense’ of a society is not a fixed given but is subject to transformation through imaginative incitement ‘in common’. As the spheres of contemporary art and activism are increasingly intertwined, it would seem that “ being in common” is where and how art can in imperceptible ways change the world.

Simon Pope: Dialogic and participatory art practices are notoriously difficult to document with any veracity; the richness of encounter made possible by artworks of this type remain largely inscrutable to those who did not participate in their realization. Within the context of doctoral research, documentation strategies become all the more decisive when not only the outcome, but also the process of the research, has to be described.
Taking a recent participatory artwork as a case study, this seminar asks how practice - whether in written form, or as art work – might inform our approach to research, how practice might considered as producing both outcome and process and what the consequences are for our documentation strategies.