Creative Resistance 5: Success & Failure The Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions

Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center for Artistic Activism and is hosted by Research Fellow, Sarah J Halford.







EPISODE 5 -- SUCCESS & FAILURE







Creative Resistance is a special edition podcast mini-series in affiliation with the Center for Artistic Activism and is hosted by Research Fellow, Sarah J Halford.







In this episode, we heard from art activists Diana Arce, Elliot Crown, Mark Read of The Illuminator, and André Leipold of the Center for Political Beauty.







From Stephen Duncombe, co-founder of the Center for Artistic Activism:







"I'm very interested in metrics which are relative to what artistic activists want to do\...I think it's too arrogant to say, 'here's the one path to success' - that doesn't get to the nuances of how artistic activism works. But I do think we need to demand that people have an idea of what they want to have happen and have criteria, their own criteria, for measurements of: are we moving closer to it or farther away from it? Because without those measurements how do you know if what you're doing actually works?"















Photo credit: Elliot Crown (Pictured: Elliot Crown in costume).







Key takeaways from episode 5:







How do we know when something has succeeded or failed? We "measure" it with parameters called **metrics. **







Everyone has different metrics of success and failure; it's up to you to choose your own. These may be statistical (i.e. how many people showed up to my event?), but they could also be more intangible (i.e. a story someone shared about changing their actions).







Remember the affect/effect relationship when figuring out your metrics of success and failure. If someone told you that your work made them feel a certain way, great (that's the affect). But did they do something different (that's the effect) based on that feeling? We're shooting for a tangible effect in artistic activism.







Going back to your objectives/goals can help you to determine your metrics.







* (https://c4aa.org/2016/09/diana-arce/)* (https://c4aa.org/2017/01/elliot-crown/)* (https://c4aa.org/2016/08/andre-leipold/)







Music By (in order of appearance):







* Theme: "Drum Flute Loop in G Minor" by Enoe* "Golden Hour" by Podington Bear* "Sepia" by Podington Bear* "Hip Horns with Drums" by Ryan Cullinane







Music courtesy of freemusicarchive.org







Special thanks to Professor Stephen Duncombe.







For more information on the Center for Artistic Activism, visit: https://c4aa.org







THAT'S IT!







This was a mini-series, and this was the last episode. The Pop Culture Salvage Expeditions will return to this feed in the future.







Thanks again to Sarah J Halford, creator and host of Creative Resistance: The Podcast Mini-Series







Who is Sarah J Halford?







Sarah J Halford is an academic and activist based in Boston. She has worked closely with the Center for Artistic Activism as a research fellow, conducting fieldwork for the Æfficacy project. Additionally, she worked as a fellow of the Urban Democracy Lab and acted as lead researcher in projects for the British Council. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate of Sociology at Brandeis University,