Wednesday 29th June | 11:00 - 17:00 | Microsoft Teams

WITH INVITED GUESTS ANNE DUFFAU (RCA/ transmissions), GAVIN EVERALL (bookworks), GHISLAINE LEUNG (artist), SARAH MCCROCRY (CCA Goldsmiths)

As pandemic-related protocols of in- and exclusion have enacted a relative demise of physical space and co-production, the exponential increase in online mediation has substantially transformed the ways in which cultural, cognitive and affective content is shared, disseminated and/or produced.

Modes of distribution are immediately affected by these changes and provide one of its main axes of acceleration. We treat this doubling as a starting point for an engagement with distribution that attends to its logistics as well as its performative affordances: Operations of distribution organise dissemination and dispersal, as well as access and participation, and are necessarily entangled with the infrastructural patterns and behaviours that orient these.

We believe that examining distribution in, through and under the terms of the pandemic from February 2020 to now allows us to critically assess at least some of the large-scale re-orientations of the cultural field that have taken shape over the last fifteen months. Drawing on institutional practices and experiences in cultural and artistic work, the event will chart how modes of distribution have adapted to and in turn modified pandemic-induced and –accelerated habits and capacities.

MODES OF DISTRIBUTION 1: DISTRIBUTION AND CRISIS is primarily drawing on experiences and models from the expanded art world but we welcome participants from across disciplines, regardless of how they habitually describe their (research) practice. The event will consist of presentations and in-conversations with our invited guest contributors, as well as open plenary sessions. All disciplines welcome.

The event is part of a broader project on notions, formats and practices of distribution and/as production, and aims to explore how modalities of distribution have registered the ongoing pandemic. The event is part of the ongoing ‘FUTURE OF ART RESEARCH’ series organised by the Art Research Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, and generously supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership.