The Responsible Artist: Debate
A special event at the RSA in London for alumni of the University of Manchester, RSA fellows and friends. A panel debate addressing the question of the responsible artist: should an artist, the work they create and their actions hold a moral responsibility for their audiences and wider?
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@RSANW: come along @UoMLondon alumni joint event with @RSANW @theRSAorg #ResponsibleArtist t.co/QgX65BGhxI
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On the train to London for #ResponsibleArtist tonight with Prof James Thompson @theRSAorg @JamesThomp @inplaceofwar @RSANW
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MT @anotherrambler: Tonight @UoMLondon #responsibleartist: Should artist, their work & actions hold moral responsibility for audiences?
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The dramatic setting for tonight’s @uomlondon event on #responsibleartist with @JamesThomp and co t.co/bf80dU0mrV -
Hello #responsibleartist @theRSAorg tonight with @JamesThomp @jessicaknappett Anneke Pettican and Olly Fox.
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Tonight at #responsibleartist we’re thinking about what moral responsibility artists & their work might hold for audiences. A big question!
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Packed room for #responsibleartist. Welcome to @alumniuom and @thersaorg in the audience. t.co/A1kxFMKXLu -
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Looking forward to panel debate on #responsibleartist #frsa with @jamesthomp t.co/02yziDS2Uj (at @thersaorg) t.co/Av17iMwz1v
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Reeeeally looking forward to #responsibleartist tonight at @theRSAorg
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At the Royal Society of Arts – University of Manchester #ResponsibleArtist
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@RSANW: #ResponsibleArtist about to start @theRSAorg @alumniUoM #frsa and @RSANW is in the audience t.co/i8FN6hYcJs -
Excited to be at #responsibleartist event this eve @theRSAorg. Fantastic panel lined up. t.co/6miNqZWGl8 -
Well here we all are ready and raring to go at #responsibleartist t.co/iXdhm775AL -
@RSANW: #ResponsibleArtist about to start @theRSAorg @alumniUoM #frsa and @RSANW is in the audience t.co/i8FN6hYcJs
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Vikki Heywood introduces the panel… #responsibleartist … What’s one of them then??? #frsa over to .@JamesThomp t.co/5ZwbPok1SD -
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“@AlumniUoM: If you haven’t heard of @JamesThomp‘s @inplaceofwar project do pop over to their twitter account #ResponsibleArtist” #frsa
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Social responsibility discussed across all disciplines but what does it mean when talk about it in arts & for artists? #ResponsibleArtist
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#ResponsibleArtist @theRSAorg artists in war zones responding to a situation or creating distraction #RSANW
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Are artists being more responsible by reacting TO a situation, or by distracting FROM it? #responsibleartist #theRSA
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Panellists asked themselves in advance whether they are responsible artists. #ResponsibleArtist
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Anneke introduces idea of working in public and private spaces and women’s role in both #ResponsibleArtist
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Anneke invokes mirror as device in artistic practice – has working with Bronte Museum in Haworth with deflected lasers #ResponsibleArtist
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Anneke suggests we are careful, but also irresponsible – work with technology and try and break it. #ResponsibleArtist
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.@JamesThomp asks what are limits to artists’ freedom to respond in contemporary British society #ResponsibleArtist
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@JamesThomp brings out the topic of trust and whether #responsibleartist need to develop it @RSANW @theRSAorg @AlumniUoM
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Hearing now from composer Olly Fox who suggests he is here to ask more questions than he can answer tonight #ResponsibleArtist
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Does the artist provide a mirror to society’s ills or a means to forget them? Olly says he tries to do both. #ResponsibleArtist
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Olly suggests you can be responsible by the choices you make it what and who you work on and with #ResponsibleArtist
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Olly says music is an emotional response to world – a way to glue together chapters of a story and take emotional energy #ResponsibleArtist
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Olly says music is never about him – describes himself as an empty vessel for inner voice of a play or story #ResponsibleArtist
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“@AlumniUoM: Olly describes how the genre you work in matters to social responsibility #ResponsibleArtist” #frsa
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Olly says artists don’t set out to be responsible but may choose to be. #ResponsibleArtist
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Artists don’t necessarily set out to be #responsibleartist always people/team in background, so notion of freedom is curious @theRSAorg
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It’s such treat to hear from practitioners how they grapple with issues of freedom & social responsibility in their work #ResponsibleArtist
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“@AlumniUoM: Respect your audience adds Olly, and don’t dupe them. #ResponsibleArtist” #frsa #thersa @theRSAorg
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Next up in the panel tonight at #ResponsibleArtist @theRSAorg is @jessicaknappett currently starring in #Drifters
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.@jessicaknappett is a comedian, a writer and an actor who graduated from @MHCentre in 2007 #ResponsibleArtist
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.@jessicaknappett says comedians like every artist have something to say that they are compelled to express #ResponsibleArtist
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.@MHCentre has fostered impressive list of comedians who changed comedy #ResponsibleArtist
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Comedy – has to be divorced from responsibility – it provides distraction – Jessica Knappet #ResponsibleArtist @theRSAorg #RSANW
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What!? No climate change? #responsibleartist panel sticks to entertaining & distracting the masses #frsa
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“@erinmaochu: What!? No climate change? #responsibleartist panel sticks to entertaining & distracting the masses #frsa” sounds like a Q
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“@AlumniUoM: .@JamesThomp suggests constraint is key to artistic creativity and can be key to their success #ResponsibleArtist” SO SPOT ON
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.@JamesThomp suggests that limits make work stronger. Anneke responds that limits are not always where you expect them #ResponsibleArtist
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What a shame that none of the speakers @RSA talk do not consider themselves responsible artists. #WastedOpportunity #ResponsibleArtist
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Hmm socially #responsibleartist …. run that by me again… #frsa not quite grasping the concept t.co/Sp84aWpC5K -
First question is about reinterpreting classic works of western literature in the light of Edward Said and orientalism #ResponsibleArtist
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Next question brings in #britten100 and Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem for Coventry Cathedral #ResponsibleArtist
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Great q: have artists left us the audience behind? Do artists have responsibility to provide steps for us to follow? #ResponsibleArtist
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Question on idea of temporal responsibility in artist creating art for that instance or for posterity #ResponsibleArtist
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“You are only responsible the second you have the idea” #ResponsibleArtist
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Time and the impact of time when judging #responsibleartist
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Some fascinating questions at the #ResponsibleArtist event tonight. #theRSA
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Olly says responsibility to audience or to himself is constant battle. He confesses to being worst editor of his work #ResponsibleArtist
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.@jessicaknappett says responsibility of comedian is to make audience laugh, but first write something you find funny #ResponsibleArtist
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Art like academia asks more questions than it answers – one way it exercises its responsibility #ResponsibleArtist
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Thank you to our panel tonight @JamesThomp @jessicaknappett Olly Fox and Anneke Pettican #ResponsibleArtist
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Special thanks to all the tweeters on #ResponsibleArtist tonight too.
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Fun evening at #responsibleartist @thersaorg tonight and even had a go on @alumniuom. Less fun being on last train home though.
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@AlumniUoM excellent,thoughtful,thought provoking event #responsibleartist at the RSA.Manchester London = winning combination.
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Oh, and thanks to the #responsibleartist audience for not swearing even once allowed to 😉
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RSA NorthWest 
Sorry not to have been there. Well done, all, including RSA NW team for this coup d’art.
Thanks Kevin! Hope you can make the Social Enterprise events?!
Unfortunately not! ;-(