Gavin Grindon
Biographic Data
| ID | 933083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Grindon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Grindon |
| SIGNATURE | GRINDON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5851-3333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Guerilla Art, Risk and Direct Action from 1962–1987
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery
This article is a product of the first complete survey of British public representational monuments in the U.K. related to transatlantic slavery, available online at https:// www.britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net. Identifying over 900 monuments, it brings this survey to bear on current public and policy debates about such monuments' history, significance and meaning vis--vis slavery, art and heritage
Seeing culture from below
This paper reflects on our mapping and database project britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net , the first and currently most complete account of British representational public monuments related to British transatlantic slavery. It reproduces our headline findings and presents some new maps of the data. However, our main focus in this paper is on placing our project in a wider context of emergent practices and methods that inspired us. First, we n…
Curating with Counterpowers
This article examines the turn in Anglophone protest cultures since 2007 toward curating, museums, and heritage: a rise in the toppling of statues, demonstrations inside museums, and the creation of exhibitions, displays, and archives within the ephemeral spaces of protest camps and other mobilizations. The author argues for the historical causes of this curatorial turn in movement cultures, examines the structural power dynamics of this extrains…
Poetry Written in Gasoline
Revolutionary Romanticism
This article examines Henri Lefebvre's concept of revolution-as-festival, its textual sources and its relationship to contemporary notions developed by Georges Bataille and the Situationist International. It is a companion-piece to the examination of Bataille's revolution-as-festival in Third Text 104, vol 24, no 3, May 2010. The author argues that Lefebvre's revolution-as-festival embodies the multiple methodological ambiguities of his ‘open’ di…
Revolutionary Romanticism
This is an abridged translation of a manifesto article, first published in French in 1957, by the Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre. It argues for a new “revolutionary romanticism” as an appropriate aesthetic for Western anti-capitalist movements outside the party-form. Beginning with an assessment of the subjective alienation of everyday life, he proposes that a revolutionary culture could be founded upon a valorization of the f…
Surrealism, Dada, and the Refusal of Work
Discussions of the relatively recent notion of ?activist-art? have two common art-historical frames. The first is formal: the post-modern move towards collective or participatory art practices.1 The second is critical and historical: that of the revolutionary ambitions of the historical avant-garde, and their ?failure? or ?success'. This frame, made central by Peter B rger in 1974, has produced a wealth of criticism.2 Perhaps due to this weight o…
Alchemist of the Revolution
This article examines Georges Bataille?s notion of revolution?as?festival and his attempt, in his writing of the 1930s, to place theories of affect within the framework of Marxist philosophy. Against the various negative characterisations of this project, it looks at Bataille?s ideas in this period in context, in order to understand their vivid contradictions as an attempt to assert a positive project of affect?s utility to the Left, within and a…
Revolutionary Romanticism
This article examines Henri Lefebvre's concept of revolution-as-festival, its textual sources and its relationship to contemporary notions developed by Georges Bataille and the Situationist International. It is a companion-piece to the examination of Bataille's revolution-as-festival in Third Text 104, vol 24, no 3, May 2010. The author argues that Lefebvre's revolution-as-festival embodies the multiple methodological ambiguities of his ‘open’ di…
Poetry Written in Gasoline
Surrealism, Dada, and the Refusal of Work
Discussions of the relatively recent notion of ?activist-art? have two common art-historical frames. The first is formal: the post-modern move towards collective or participatory art practices.1 The second is critical and historical: that of the revolutionary ambitions of the historical avant-garde, and their ?failure? or ?success'. This frame, made central by Peter B rger in 1974, has produced a wealth of criticism.2 Perhaps due to this weight o…
Alchemist of the Revolution
This article examines Georges Bataille?s notion of revolution?as?festival and his attempt, in his writing of the 1930s, to place theories of affect within the framework of Marxist philosophy. Against the various negative characterisations of this project, it looks at Bataille?s ideas in this period in context, in order to understand their vivid contradictions as an attempt to assert a positive project of affect?s utility to the Left, within and a…
Seeing culture from below
This paper reflects on our mapping and database project britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net , the first and currently most complete account of British representational public monuments related to British transatlantic slavery. It reproduces our headline findings and presents some new maps of the data. However, our main focus in this paper is on placing our project in a wider context of emergent practices and methods that inspired us. First, we n…
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery
This article is a product of the first complete survey of British public representational monuments in the U.K. related to transatlantic slavery, available online at https:// www.britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net. Identifying over 900 monuments, it brings this survey to bear on current public and policy debates about such monuments' history, significance and meaning vis--vis slavery, art and heritage
Alchemist of the Revolution
This article examines Georges Bataille?s notion of revolution?as?festival and his attempt, in his writing of the 1930s, to place theories of affect within the framework of Marxist philosophy. Against the various negative characterisations of this project, it looks at Bataille?s ideas in this period in context, in order to understand their vivid contradictions as an attempt to assert a positive project of affect?s utility to the Left, within and a…
Surrealism, Dada, and the Refusal of Work
Discussions of the relatively recent notion of ?activist-art? have two common art-historical frames. The first is formal: the post-modern move towards collective or participatory art practices.1 The second is critical and historical: that of the revolutionary ambitions of the historical avant-garde, and their ?failure? or ?success'. This frame, made central by Peter B rger in 1974, has produced a wealth of criticism.2 Perhaps due to this weight o…
Revolutionary Romanticism
This is an abridged translation of a manifesto article, first published in French in 1957, by the Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre. It argues for a new “revolutionary romanticism” as an appropriate aesthetic for Western anti-capitalist movements outside the party-form. Beginning with an assessment of the subjective alienation of everyday life, he proposes that a revolutionary culture could be founded upon a valorization of the f…
Revolutionary Romanticism
This article examines Henri Lefebvre's concept of revolution-as-festival, its textual sources and its relationship to contemporary notions developed by Georges Bataille and the Situationist International. It is a companion-piece to the examination of Bataille's revolution-as-festival in Third Text 104, vol 24, no 3, May 2010. The author argues that Lefebvre's revolution-as-festival embodies the multiple methodological ambiguities of his ‘open’ di…
Poetry Written in Gasoline
Curating with Counterpowers
This article examines the turn in Anglophone protest cultures since 2007 toward curating, museums, and heritage: a rise in the toppling of statues, demonstrations inside museums, and the creation of exhibitions, displays, and archives within the ephemeral spaces of protest camps and other mobilizations. The author argues for the historical causes of this curatorial turn in movement cultures, examines the structural power dynamics of this extrains…
Mapping British Public Monuments Related to Slavery
This article is a product of the first complete survey of British public representational monuments in the U.K. related to transatlantic slavery, available online at https:// www.britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net. Identifying over 900 monuments, it brings this survey to bear on current public and policy debates about such monuments' history, significance and meaning vis--vis slavery, art and heritage
Seeing culture from below
This paper reflects on our mapping and database project britishmonumentsrelatedtoslavery.net , the first and currently most complete account of British representational public monuments related to British transatlantic slavery. It reproduces our headline findings and presents some new maps of the data. However, our main focus in this paper is on placing our project in a wider context of emergent practices and methods that inspired us. First, we n…
Guerilla Art, Risk and Direct Action from 1962–1987
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