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The Art of Engagement: Culture, Collaboration, Innovation
Edited by Elaine Lally, Ien Ang and Kay Anderson, this book investigates a number of contemporary art projects which brought together artists, businesses, other organisations, and communities, under the label of C3West (commerce, culture, community). The aim was to find new and sustainable models for site-specific creative production that is genuinely collaborative and engages with the challenges of economic, social and regional development.
Projects were undertaken with a range of business partners in Western Sydney, including Penrith Panthers and the waste company SITA, and the artists commissioned include Australian artists, Craig Walsh and Ash Keating; and international artists, Sylvie Blocher and Jeanne van Heeswijk.
The book is an outcome of the CCR led project The Art of Engagement: Exploring C3 West, a Contemporary Arts-Business Collaboration Around Western Sydney. The project was funded by an ARC Linkage Grant - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (MCA), Casula Powerhouse and Penrith Performing & Visual Arts were partners in the Linkage grant and, with Campbelltown Arts Centre, were the organisations behind C3West.
Culture, Class, Distinction
Co-authored by Tony Bennett, Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates.
In doing so they re-appraise the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity, music, film, television, literary, and arts consumption, the organisation of sporting and culinary practices, and practices of bodily and self maintenance. As the most comprehensive account to date of the varied interpretations of cultural capital that have been developed in the wake of Bourdieu’s work, Culture, Class, Distinction offers the first systematic assessment of the relationships between cultural practice and the social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary Britain.
