The Glasgow School of Art

DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH?

Morgan Quaintance with questions by Donald Butler, Isabel Coulier, Chi Liu and Izzy Tinkler 

In this talk Morgan Quaintance will discuss the writing, reactions, attempted clapbacks and other consequences of his 2017 text – The New Conservatism: Complicity and the UK Art World's Performance of Progression

Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely. Over the past ten years, his critically incisive writings on contemporary art, aesthetics and their socio-political contexts, have featured in publications including Art Monthly, the Wire, and the Guardian, and helped shape the landscape of discourse and debate in the UK.