183MC – Creative Protest Activity Pack The locations of Activity 1 and Activity 2 can be found on the map below. Both locations have a walking distance (10-20mins). You do not have to do the activities in order. Activity 1 and Activity 2 need to be completed in order for you to answer the brief. The brief for the essay can be found on page 7. The activities form part of your data collection. Activity 1: Birmingham Art Gallery and Museums: Grayson Perry exhibition Activity 2: The Custard Factory 1. Birmingham Art Gallery and Museums, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH 2. The Custard Factory, Gibb St, Birmingham, West Midlands B9 4AA Activity pack includes: Where you can find Gemma and John – Setting Up and De-Brief Location Map detailing locations (above and page 3) Activity 1 Activity 2 Essay Brief Details about Fridays lecture Readings for the essay – N.B: you should go beyond these reading too! You need to: 1
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183MC – Creative Protest Activity Pack
The locations of Activity 1 and Activity 2 can be found on the map below. Both locations have a walking distance (10-20mins). You do not have to do the activities in order. Activity 1 and Activity 2 need to be completed in order for you to answer the brief. The brief for the essay can be found on page 7. The activities form part of your data collection.
Activity 1: Birmingham Art Gallery and Museums: Grayson Perry exhibition
Activity 2: The Custard Factory
1. Birmingham Art Gallery and Museums, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham B3 3DH2. The Custard Factory, Gibb St, Birmingham, West Midlands B9 4AA
Activity pack includes:
Where you can find Gemma and John – Setting Up and De-Brief Location Map detailing locations (above and page 3) Activity 1 Activity 2 Essay Brief Details about Fridays lecture Readings for the essay – N.B: you should go beyond these reading too!
You need to:
Make notes Take photos in and around the locations (Custard Factory / Digbeth
streets only) **note: you are not allowed to take photos in the exhibition.
Collect leaflets of relevance
Think about the:
SPACE, BUILDIGNS, LOCATIONS and what they say about the types of social commentaries in the locations visited.
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Meet: Starbucks in the Bullring (Starbucks opposite EAT)Starbucks – The Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham. B2 4XJ
Time: between 10 and 11.
Gemma, John and Bianca will be at Starbucks in the Bullring (Starbucks opposite EAT) from 10am to 11am. If you need to contact us please email us
Time: …………..Location: Starbucks114/115 New Street, The Burlington, Birmingham, B2 4JH
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Map and Locations:
Activity 1: Birmingham Art Gallery and Museums: Grayson Perry exhibition
Activity 2: The Custard Factory
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Activity 1: Birmingham Art Gallery and Museums – Grayson Perry Exhibition: The Vanity of Small Differences
**Note: you are not allowed take pictures of the tapestries – there is a statement before you enter the exhibition stating this. Instead, write down the main themes in each tapestry and discuss with your group. All tapestries can be found online for reference and for your appendices
Location and building:
1. Official voice of art?2. What does the grandness of the building / architecture say?3. What types of people are around and in the art gallery and museum?4. Who can view the art and who can create art?5. Think about the differences between the locations of activities. What do
the contexts and messages in the locations say about who can be there or what can be done there?
The exhibition:
1. What are the tapestries depicting?2. What is the message in each tapestry?3. How do you feel about the message? 4. What can you do with the message?5. The medium of tapestry – what does this mean?6. Types of engagement allowed7. What is the overall message in the exhibition? 8. Can you relate to the tapestries? Why?9. What do the tapestries tell us about modern life?10. What do the tapestries tell us about ‘cool’ and consumer culture?
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Activity 2: The Custard Factory – street art, stencils, stickers, graffiti art and ‘cool’
a. On your walk to The Custard Factory note:
1. Where do the graffiti, stickers, wall art, and statements of ‘deviancy’ start? (Beyond the Bullring?)
2. The types of street art / stickers / graffiti 3. How do these interact with their surroundings?4. What statements or messages are the stickers, graffiti, street art saying? 5. The types of individuals walking / in the street6. Think about the differences between the locations of activities. What do
the contexts and messages in the locations say about who can be there or what can be done there?
b. At The Custard Factory
Explore The Custard Factory and the surroundings. Look for, evidence and note down any type of graffiti, art, stickers in this location. Think about the differences between the locations of activities. What do the contexts and messages in the locations say about who can be there or what can be done there?
Observe, note down, discuss:
1. Use of the building / types of shops 2. Types of individuals walking, hanging, shopping, working 3. The types of street art / stickers / graffiti 4. What statements or messages are the stickers, graffiti, street art saying? 5. How are they integrated with their surroundings? 6. Do these statements differ from Activity 1? 7. Do these statements differ depending on location, style of message?8. How do you feel about the style of the location and street art? What can
you do with it?9. Is the location ‘cool’ – what makes it cool?10. Does the location sell ‘cool’ and is cool authenticated? 11. How is ‘cool’ / street art style (etc) sold? 12. How can you engage with the space, location, street art?
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Essay Brief:
FIFTH DEADLINE: MONDAY 12TH MAY 10am ESSAY ON CREATIVE PROTEST IN BIRMINGHAM AND RECUPERATION WITH APPENDICES
The group must submit critical essay on the creative protests experienced in Birmingham, what the messages of these protests mean and how they become recuperated in consumer culture. Think about what happens to meaning, cool and protest when applied to various contexts such as officialdom and the non-official.
Each member of the group needs to write 300 words.
The word count does not include bibliography or appendices.
You will need to do background research after the activities on the artists or locations you have experienced to give context to the locations, art seen, etc. You will also need to read the literature attached but also do further textual research. Use the days between the activity and lecture to start mind mapping, planning your group essay and analysing your data. The lecture will explain the theory, which will help you to contextualise the essay.
Put your photographs and research in your appendices at the end of your essay. You can reference images within the appendices in the main bod of the group essay. The appendices will evidence your activities in Birmingham.
You will need to upload your essay and appendices to your group blog too.
Lecture: Friday 9th May
The lecture will explore the theories on creative activism, culture jamming, recuperation and cool. We will also explore a range of creative activisms and their messages.
There will be no seminars on Friday; instead there will be drop-in sessions from 12-4 in ETG22 for you to discuss your essay.
Googledocs is one of the best platforms for you to work on the document together.
