[...] perhaps our life is still governed by a certain number of oppositions that remain inviolable, that our institutions and practices have not yet dared to break down

(Of other spaces, Michel Foucault, 1967)

Formed in 2005, fugitivespaces undertakes research and development in the arts and education. fugitivespaces is particularly concerned with the idea of research as practice and the interface between art practice, education and community development. By undertaking research into existing projects as well as initiating new programmes of research and development, fugitivespaces aims to develop understanding of diverse modes, forms and sites of production of art and education within a range of social spaces, and how these might interface more meaningfully with the diverse conditions of a range of communities. Through involvement at the early stages, fugitivespaces aims to develop research that operates alongside practice, unpacking artists’ processes in order to open up different kinds of understanding.

By identifying other spaces of crossing between art, education and communities, fugitivespaces hopes to encourage space for educational change with and within a range of localities, which:
• Identify new sites and opportunities for the research, development and dissemination of art and education practice with and within diverse localities
• Offer wider forms of understanding and engagement with a diversity of artists’ processes and forms of practice to support these developments
• Explore how research as practice might open up new sites, methodologies and means of dissemination that widens access to the visual, social and educational
• Investigate alternative, critical frameworks for considering art’s relation to society and in particular approaches to widening access and social in/exclusion

For more information, contact Fiona Dean, Research and Development.