Events

  • DACS at AIRTIME: Southend-on-Sea

    DACS will be at AIRTIME to talk to artists and students about copyright.

    3 April 2013, 3:00 PM-5:00 PM

  • Instituted By Artists

    This event looked at the methods and projects that artists employ to disrupt—and mimic—traditional institutional structures for their own ends, be they artistic, practical or financial.

    13 June 2012, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

  • Market Matters

    The second debate in The New Economy of Art series explored the complex and overlapping motivations behind various kinds of ‘art market’ from commercial galleries, private dealers and auction houses to art fairs, online selling and gift economies.

    14 March 2012, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

  • What are we worth? Artists and the Economic Crisis

    A debate on how artists can create income in support of their practice in a period of dramatic economic, social and technological change.

    18 October 2011, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

  • Artists' Futures

    Artists' Futures explored how artists’ futures can be sustained and supported at a time of rapid and far reaching economic, social and technological changes

    14 February 2011, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

  • The Economy of Art

    What value does art have financially, socially and culturally? How can we measure the intangible benefits of the visual arts in financial terms? Chaired by Alan Yentob, a distinguished panel of artists, economists and commentators explored the value of the visual arts to the economy and society at a time when the value of traditional economic sectors are being seriously challenged.

    12 November 2009, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM