Parallel State

JJ Chan

Parallel State

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In response to the following provocations, JJ Chan presented a series of rhetorical questions around imagining and unimagining the social, economic, and political contexts of the prevailing now in Doncaster; "What Does a Northern Town Look Like in the Parallel State and what happens in it‘s public spaces? Without a north:south binary, how will Doncaster‘s past inform this reimagined version of itself? If Doncaster were self-governed, what would it look like? How would it interact with other urban and rural communities? What would its public spaces look like?". A year before this event, Mark Rappolt had written in Art Review Asia, that the devastating impact of Covid-19 ‟makes art, and the communities that engage with it, more worthy of preservation than ever”. In critical response JJ wrote in ArtAsiaPacific: "what‘s worth preserving?" "As we start to rebuild our normalities," they continued "we need to ask ourselves what our past normalities had neglected, what they had marginalized, and what we might bring with us into the newly emerging." As we emerge out of lockdown, what normalities are we going to accept? In the Parallel State, are we all migrants... what of our culture, of our Donny, will we bring with us? All citizens in the Parallel State are equal and not bound by geographical restraints and prejudices. The Parallel State is a fictive breakaway state - a space to collectively imagine alternative solutions to life on earth - free from the oppositional constraints of the failed states in which we live. All citizens in the Parallel State are equal and not bound by geographical restraints and prejudices. The presentations were followed by a Question Time style panel discussion. This event formed part of a one-day forum titled Public Art to Street Art at the Artbomb festival in Doncaster. It was co-curated by Eelyn Lee & Helen Kilby Nelson of the Parallel State together with Olivia Jones of Doncapolitan, a citizen-led publication and movement in Doncaster. Other speakers and panellists included drag performance artist Bipolar Abdul, artist and local Labour Councillor Sarah Smizz, writer and activist Olivia Jones, and Clare Devaney who is Strategic Lead for Place & Culture in the North. Together, the forum hosted discussions on creative connections, social agency, effective responses and the relevance of contemporary urban interventions to form a critical understanding of people and place.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 6 Aug 2021
Event	Artbomb Festival : Public // Street Art Forum - Doncaster, U.K. Duration: 5 Aug 2021 → 9 Aug 2021

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Conference	Artbomb Festival : Public // Street Art Forum
Period	5/08/21 → 9/08/21

Bibliographical note

Impact: Public Art to Street Art, was a one-day forum featuring presentations, workshops and roundtable discussions that took place on Friday the 6th of August at the Unitarian Church Hall in Doncaster, as part of Artbomb festival. The Public Art to Street Art forum was an event for artists, curators, urbanists and writers to challenge how we think of art in the public realm. An international list of speakers included public art curators Tamsin Dillon and Laurie Peake, street artists Yola, STATIC, and Natasha Clark, sculptors Sophie Ernst and Lewis Morgan, artist/architects Matthew Rosier and Studio Polpo, who were representing the UK at the Venice Architecture Biennale at the time. Additionally, the forum featured talks by eco-artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey. Interwoven into the forum were presentations and panel discussions hosted by the Parallel State in collaboration with Olivia Jones and the local publication, Doncapolitan, who invited a number of people to respond to the following provocation: What Does a Northern Town Look Like in the Parallel State and what happens in it‘s public spaces? All citizens in the Parallel State are equal and not bound by geographical restraints and prejudices. Without a north:south binary, how will Doncaster‘s past inform this reimagined version of itself? If Doncaster were self governed, what would it look like? How would it interact with other urban and rural communities? What would its public spaces look like? Speakers included drag performance artist Bipolar Abdul, artist JJ Chan, artist and local Labour Councillor Sarah Smizz, Writer and Activist Olivia Jones, and Clare Devaney who is Strategic Lead for Place & Culture in the North. Together, the forum hosted discussions on creative connections, social agency, effective responses and the relevance of contemporary urban interventions to form a critical understanding of people and place. As 'high street collapse‘ provides new opportunities for reimagining urban space, how do new forms interface with public art policy and the work of regenerative arts programs? The event also included; performances, thoughts from young people, a backroom polling station and a temporary tattoo parlour. The Parallel State is building new alliances through a series of events that will lay the foundations for a Parallel State Summit. Artbomb is an open platform arts festival, spreading across public space and spilling onto the street. This three-day event is engineered through the collaborative efforts of Doncaster Creates, The New Fringe and True Tone. The festival is funded by The Arts Council North and DCLT, and in partnership with The Point, Right Up Our Street, Art of Protest Projects, Doncaster College, D31 Gallery, Doncopolitan, CAST and Pride.

Organising Body: Doncaster Creates, The New Fringe and True Tone

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Architecture and the built environment

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