Supervisor: Bart Cammaerts and Robin Mansell
Research Topic: Radical Printshop Collectives (UK) 1968-1998
The research is concerned with the relationship between various radical political discourses and the formation of, challenges to and, for the most part, subsequent demise of the numerous radical printing collectives that emerged in the UK in the 1970s. These printshops attempted to enact their politics not just through facilitating the dissemination of counter hegemonic discourses but also through their working practices. However in the 1980s and 1990s alternative political agendas changed considerably. Through the historical case of the print collectives and drawing partially on the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe this research attempts to critically map and analyse specific shifts in radical discourses of production and participation. I gained my MA in 20th Century Art History & Theory (2003) at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the department of Cultural History. I have a PGCE for Teaching in Higher Education from the London Institute. Between the early 1980s and mid 1990s I was involved in various radical printing collectives. Currently I hold a part-time lecturing post in the Faculty of Design at London College of Communications (LCC).
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Contact: j.baines@lse.ac.uk|