The Promise of the Affordable Artist's Studio: Governing Creative Spaces in London

Simon Moreton
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Simon Moreton: Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education, University of the West of England, REACT Hub, Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX, England

Environment and Planning A, 2013, vol. 45, issue 2, 421-437

Abstract: The role of artists' organisations in populating and popularising postindustrial urban areas is well documented. However, what are less apparent are analyses of how spaces of artistic production are organised and governed in these areas. This paper explores, via an analysis of organisational documents and practices, the techniques used by London-based affordable studio providers to imagine, calculate, and make material low-cost workspace for artists. The argument made is that the negotiation of competing agendas around the production of cultural, economic, and social benefit by affordable studio providers has led to the emergence of a specific form of affordable studio. This analysis will thus show how configurations of creative space emerge from mundane techniques of measurement and governance.

Keywords: arts organisations; creativity; governmentality; calculation; artists'; studios (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/a44598

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