Resources
References provided by contributors to Agile Structures projects will be added here. They are listed under project headers in reverse chronological order. 

Working Mission Statement Feb 2021 onwards

Agile Structures (AS) is born of the movement of the UK to exit the European Union, of the questions this development raises with regard to perspectives, identity, culture, family, and traditional and future routes. AS is focused on open dialogues, and building relationships, through practical outcomes.

We see AS as having long-term potential with a focus on networks and networking within and beyond contemporary visual arts practices, but with visual art practices at its core.

We've identified three strands to our aims: 
- siting (and citing) Cornwall as the central axis from which to pivot
- advancing & embedding practice-led learning and research
- elevating action and dialogue amongst visual arts practitioners
    We plan to make this happen by tapping into existing structures such as: - the Celtic Nations; initially to include Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Isle of Man, Scotland, Ireland, Galeçia and northern Portugal.
    -     Cornish Diaspora.
    - existing artists' collectives and networks with similar peripheral status as Cornwall.
    - cultural/arts funding and research systems.

    We see the following as potential areas for exploration, 
    - routes/rites of passage over water and land
    - cultural relationships with land
    - life on the periphery (not only geographic but environmentally, socially, economically, culturally)
    - the place of boundaries as meeting and jumping off points
    - the evolution of networks and systems.
      It's very much a work in progress at the moment but we feel the above captures the essence of how we want to move forward. We see AS as meshing with existing provision by offering an alternative/additional focus for practitioners, where people would learn by participating, organising & developing exchanges, events, exhibitions, publications, seminars and symposia. We want to engage with other disciplines focusing on aspects of our interests to expand the discussion and place artists within these dialogues.

      Sara & Sovay, Feb 2021

      Agile Structures symposium 2020

      Saturday 27th June

      Presentation #3: Ceri Hand
      http://www.artistmentor.co.uk
      https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk      
      https://www.delfinafoundation.com
      https://www.theshowroom.org
      https://www.theartstory.org/gallery-castelli-leo.htm
      https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race-9781408870587/
      https://georgiagendall.co.uk
      https://www.theastergates.com
      Information on MAKE https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/a07e2404-5520-3aeb-9040-0ef977bffb46

      SpeedShow #3: Melissa Hampson-Smith, Patrick Lowry, Alison Brown, Jacqui Orly, Caroline Pedler & Dean Knight   
      Melissa Hampson-Smith https://www.instagram.com/mjhscontemporary
      Patrick Lowry https://www.axisweb.org/p/patricklowry/
      Alison Brown http://www.alisonbrownceramics.com
      Jacqui Orly http://www.orlyammon.com
      Caroline Pedler http://www.an-ti-dotepress.co.uk
      Dean Knight https://www.dean-knight.co.uk
           
      Conversation #3: Closing discussion
      https://www.letslinkuk.net
      http://www.atcsforall.com
      http://www.artcornwall.org/index.htm

      Friday 26th June

      Conversation #2: Breakfast catch-up
      We covered self-care, how we each can affect change, peer-led art education, studios, paid work that supports art practice, class, gatekeeping, and more.
      https://blacklivesmatter.com
      http://www.wysingartscentre.org/opportunities/syllabus         https://www.artmap.london/article/alternative-art-schools-part-3-alt-mfa
      Art Monthly podcasts - scroll down the page - https://www.artmonthly.co.uk http://www.islingtonmill.com
      Information and download of A Room of One’s Own - Virgina Woolf https://www.bl.uk/works/a-room-of-ones-own https://onemorelibrary.com/index.php/en/books/literature/book/english-literature-172/a-room-of-one-s-own-2167
      https://www.newlynartschool.co.uk
      Voices That Shake! brings together young people, activists, educators and artists to challenge social and climate injustice, with a focus on addressing racial inequality. https://www.voicesthatshake.org

      Workshop #2: James Fergusson: Guerilla Forestry
      www.jamesfergusson.co.uk
      The One Straw Revolution, 1975 by Masanobu Fukuoka https://onestrawrevolution.net http://lab.cccb.org/en/tim-morton-ecology-without-nature/
      Cornish Centre a home for Cornish Archives https://kresenkernow.org
      https://unbound.com/books/not-as-nature-intended/
      http://www.kestlebarton.co.uk
      https://www.penwithlandscape.com
      https://www.ethicalconsumer.org
      https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/accursed-share-volume-1
      How to grow more vegetables, John Jeavons http://www.johnjeavons.info
      Books:
      Permaculture 1 + 2, Bill Mollison
      The New Organic Grower, Eliot Coleman
      Wildwood, Roger Deakin
      Complexity, M. Mitchell Waldorp
      The Peregrine, J A Baker
      Moss Gardening, George Schenk      
       
      Speed Show #2:Helen Trevaskis, Katy Richardson, Delpha Hudson, Kitty Hillier & Melanie Stidolph https://stpetrocs.org.uk         
      https://arts-well.com
      https://rapecrisis.org.uk
      https://www.brook.org.uk
      Helen Trevaskis http://www.thetrevaskis.co.uk
      Katy Richardson http://www.katyrichardson.co.uk
      Delpha Hudson www.delphahudson.co.uk
      Kitty Hillier www.kittyhillier.co.uk
      Melanie Stidolph www.melaniestidolph.com

      Presentation #2: Shama Khanna: Is Instagram Everything?
      https://flatness.eu/uncategorized/shama-khanna/
      Zoom alternative https://jitsi.org
      https://conversations.e-flux.com/t/the-new-conservatism-complicity-and-the-uk-art-worlds-performance-of-progression/7200       
      https://www.focusmate.com
      Artists accessibility documents https://www.leahclements.com/
      https://lux.org.uk/writing/hervisions-at-lux-out-of-touch http://www.katemakesfilms.com/cabinfever/
      https://eastsideprojects.org/projects/policy-show/
      https://www.wired.co.uk/article/defund-the-police
      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/jun/22/what-does-it-mean-to-defund-the-police-video
      https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
      Artist-led Conditions programme in Croydon https://www.89gloucesterroad.org/

      Simon Bayliss, Ilker Cinarel & Senara Wilson Hodges: Romancing the Stone
      http://www.adrianpiper.com
      https://rosannerobertson.art  

      https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bruce-nauman-1691
      http://www.simon-bayliss.com
      http://ilkercinarel.com
      https://www.onthebeachproductions.co.uk/

      Thursday 25th June

      Workshop #1: Bridgette Ashton: Meanderings & Inventories
      http://bridgetteashton.co.uk/
      http://www.suzannemooney.net
      http://www.otobongnkanga.com 
      https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/otobong-nkanga http://www.phoebecummings.com
      https://www.royalcornwallmuseum.org.uk
      https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
      http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/csm/
              
      SpeedShow #1: Clare Heath, William Luz, Liam Jolly, Patricia Wilson Smith & Tim Ridley
      Clare Heath https://www.behance.net/ClareHIllustrations
      William Luz https://williamluz.co.uk/Artist
      Liam Jolly http://liamjolly.com
      Patricia Wilson Smith www.i-machine.co.uk
      Tim Ridley www.timridley.co.uk
       
      Conversation #1: Cinzia Mutigli & Holly Davey: What Do You Have, What Do You Need & What Can You Share? 
      https://www.cinziamutigli.com/
      https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-davey-545933b6/?trk=people-guest_people_search-card&originalSubdomain=uk
      www.hollydavey.com
      http://www.g39.org
      http://www.artesmundi.org/en/
      https://fairsaturday.org/en
      http://www.payingartists.org.uk
      https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/the-future-of-skills-employment-in-2030/ https://www.artquest.org.uk
      https://www.camp-plymouth.org/susan-jones/
      http://www.padwickjonesarts.co.uk
      https://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/article/treating-rash-or-investing-cure-future-artists-livelihoods
      https://www.poverty.ac.uk/report-social-exclusion-disability-older-people/growing-problem-‘digital-exclusion’

      CAMP Supper Club

      Wednesday 24th June

      Welcome
      Speak Cornish Week       22nd - 28th June 2020 programme download
      https://www.facebook.com/speakcornish20

      Presentation #1: Dave Beech

      https://www.davebeech.co.uk/
      Dave Beech lockdown lectures https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCafsTd_NXzcm_INk1GLWkXA
      Dave Beech articles https://arts-london.academia.edu/DaveBeech
      Dave Beech Books Art and Labour (2020)
      https://brill.com/view/title/33415?rskey=V66HAd&result=1
      Art and Postmodernism (2019) https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745339245/art-and-postcapitalism/
      Art and Value (2015) https://brill.com/view/title/27145?rskey=V66HAd&result=2
      Beauty (2009) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beauty


      Additional Links of Interest

      The Machine Stops, 1909 by E M Forster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops http://www.visbox.com/prajlich/forster.html

      Glass, Meet the Future Film Festival https://northlandscreative.co.uk/2020/06/05/soul-of-a-statue-interview  The films include narratives, documentaries, experimental, and hybrid genres – telling stories about how art is made, how artists survive, how they think and work, and what makes creativity our most important skill. 

      The Panic! survey provides the most wide-ranging picture to date of working life across the core sectors of the cultural and creative industries in the UK. http://www.createlondon.org/panic/survey/

      Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists, training cultural institutionsto be more open to disabled people, and through running participatory arts and development programmes. https://www.shapearts.org.uk 

      Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year. https://www.versobooks.com 

      Intercom Trust is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans+ charity working across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and the wider South West https://www.intercomtrust.org.uk 

      Support group welcoming refugee families to Falmouth and Penryn area https://falmouthandpenrynwelcome.org 

      Market Matters: the dynamics of the contemporary art market, 2004 by Louisa Buck based on an Arts Council England research programme, Taste Buds, into the market for contemporary art in the early 2000s. Principles remain the same even though some of the detail and emphasis has changed. https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160204123821/http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/browse-advice-and-guidance/market-matters-the-dynamics-of-the-contemporary-art-market


      Agile Structures is an artist-led project, organised by Sovay Berriman & Sara Bowler.