ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 198
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C o n t e m p o r a r y
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Suzanne Smith
R e v i e w
Special Issue
I've really enjoyed your questions! I've
been thinking for some time I need to
start dealing with more openly political
stuff. I think it's incredibly important for
everyone to have ownership over the
politics and implications of their own
behaviours and artists are no different.
So that means me. The UK is in a mess at
the minute (with the EU referendum
result, austerity and social divides) and
now is not the time to take a backseat. I
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think I may start to be more active in
sourcing areas of research rather than
being more purely responsive to
stimulus. It will still be silly, and it will
still be playful, but perhaps I need to be
a little more stroppy.
An interview by Josh Ryder, curator
and Barbara Scott, curator
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