Non art is more art than Art art

Borrowed from Allan Kaprow’s Essays on the Blurring of Arts and Life, the event “…nonart is more art than Art art” will instead seek to challenge the very concept of the artist studio within contemporary and future artists practices. With Creative Enterprise Zones incorporating artists studios planned by the London Mayor, these urban models will not only further capitalise on the financially and culturally lucrative status of art and artists for governments, developers and other private and corporate investors within regeneration schemes, but will arguably also elevate the status of the artist above other citizens, and away from being in lived social space. Thus shifting artists’ practices into a yet more sanitised inverted looking activity. “…nonart is more art than Art art” will question the very need of the artist studio and argue for artists not to reinvent the studio but to divest themselves and their practices conceptually and physically from this traditional model – one that is historically based on the romantic figure of the male artist, and art market transaction – and instead, transcend the boundaries of what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.