Making & Breaking Issue 04: Psychogeographies of the Present

CARADT is excited to annouce the release of the new issue of Making & Breaking journal! This latest issue seeks to map out some of the dominant Psychogeographies of the Present.

Reworking the Situationist heritage and applying it to our time, many of the approaches presented here extend beyond the city and physical environments into the virtual dimensions of digital socialities, identifying new forces of power and potential sources of emancipation.

At a time when it has become fashionable to celebrate the looming apocalypse as post- or transhuman payback, we urgently need to reinvigorate our desire for the future. Approaching cultural production in psychogeographic terms might help identify what blockages are at play in constraining contemporary art and culture to addressing what feels like only a handful of topics, in a handful of ways.

Contributors

Contributors include: Experimental Jetset, Max Haiven, Liam Young, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Dan McQuillan, Image Acts, Total Refusal, and Tristam Adams

Click here to access the latest issue of Making & Breaking: Psychogeographies of the Present

Art & Anxieties

Art & Anxieties investigates the intersection of mental health and the creative industries, exploring how cultural production can reveal issues like burnout and anxiety. By using psychogeography, this research offers an artistic perspective on how environments impact our mental wellbeing, moving beyond traditional biomedical narratives. Led by Jess Henderson, the project seeks to contribute to a broader societal conversation about mental health, creativity, and precarity within the arts.

‘Our research group investigates the role artists, designers and cultural producers in general can play in developing the aesthetics and poetics of a desirable future.’

Sebastian Olma is professor Cultural and Creative Industries. He works for the Expertise Centre Art, Design and Technology.

Sebastian Olma

‘In social and cultural research there is increasing importance in research methodologies and devices that cut across fields and disciplines, becoming transdisciplinary.’

As a researcher at CARADT, Jess explores mental health in the creative sectors. Her work investigates burnout and depression, using artistic methods to make emotions visible and influence artistic practices.

Jess Henderson

Research Group: Cultural and Creative Industries

The research group Cultural and Creative Industries investigates the role of artists and designers as creative innovators and drivers of social and economic change. Affiliated researchers analyse the cultural and creative industries from a critical point of view and examine the conditions under which timely forms of aesthetic expression and social connectedness can actually take place within the precarious reality of this field. What economic models are required by artists and designers to create a meaningful practice within the aesthetic, social, and economic intentions of the cultural and creative industries? What skills sets are required for those artists and designers who don’t just want to follow movements, but actually shape novel social and economic models of the future?

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