Exposition

Probationary: An Artwork for Civil Servants (2021)

Hwa Young Jung, Nathan Jones
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This exposition describes a game-artwork called Probationary, which was commissioned to present the 'lived experience' of men on probation. The game has been played by the men on probation ("on licence"), by criminologists at Liverpool John Moores University, by civil servants involved in probation services, and by a wide range of players in art and design contexts. In the exposition we show how the question of who can and should play the game leads into fascinating critical trajectories unique to interactive arts of this nature: namely, if someone can interact with an artwork as an employee, how can the relation of art and work be recalibrated? What follows is a description of the theoretical basis for games as forms of critical media artwork, and a tentative framing of the concept of "Art for Civil Servants" as a method for social artivism. The exposition frames this example of "Art for Civil Servants" within a lineage of new media art, and socially engaged art, while seeking to distinguish an original methodology and emerging mandate for this form of artistic research. The distinctive proposition of this exposition for the field of artistic research, is that art's utility as a research practice can be purposefully deployed outside of cultural fields. "Art for Civil Servants" is therefore a name for a speculative field of artistic research, which will draw on social science methodologies, and seek agency in the world in this way.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsartistic research, socially engaged art, criminal justice
date25/02/2019
published05/01/2021
last modified05/01/2021
statuspublished
share statusprivate
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/573866/574088
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.573866
published inResearch Catalogue


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id name copyright license
573890 E-Token Hwa Young All rights reserved
573893 The board Dan Burns All rights reserved
573894 player token Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
573948 Playing the game Adam Lee All rights reserved
574028 relationship-token Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
574029 skills-token Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
574091 Probationary box Dan Burns All rights reserved
574094 probationary-titie Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
574200 League board Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
575165 ACE lottery_Logo_Black%20RGB Arts Council All rights reserved
575231 eye mark Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
575281 tokens markers Dan Burns All rights reserved
575283 tokens Dan Burns All rights reserved
575356 board corner shot Dan Burns All rights reserved
575366 dish tokens Dan Burns All rights reserved
575384 dish-tokens-clear-corner Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
582162 Board Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
582202 Board Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved
582204 booklet pg1 Hwa Young Jung All rights reserved

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