
Shona Macnaughton Progressive Art Collection at The University of Edinburgh
Explore the Progressive art collection by Shona Macnaughton at The University of Edinburgh, featuring thought-provoking performance documentation and insightful resources on art, gentrification, and gender perspectives. Delve into the contemporary art scene through an engaging series of videos and references provided by the University's Art Research Collection.
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Shona Shona Macnaughton Macnaughton Progressive Progressive (2017) (2017) www.shonamacnaughton.com The University of Edinburgh Contemporary Art Art Research Collection Accession number EU5663 Kirsten Lloyd School of History of Art, The University of Edinburgh (Kirsten.Lloyd@ed.ac.uk) This resource is licensed CC BY NC ND, Kirsten Lloyd, University of Edinburgh, 2021.
All images, unless otherwise stated: Shona Macnaughton, Progressive (2017) performance documentation. Photography Matthew Williams. University of Edinburgh Art Collection. CC BY NC ND.
Contents 1. Resources 2. Introduction Part 1 (video link) 3. Introduction Part 2 (video link) 4. Additional References 5. Questions
Resources Art and the City Rosalyn Deutsche and Cara Gendel Ryan, The Fine Art of Gentrification , October 31 (1984): 91 111. Josephine Berry Slater and Anthony Iles, No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City , Mute, 2009, https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/no-room-to- move-radical-art-and-regenerate-city. Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class , Washington Monthly, May 2002, https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/may-2002/the-rise-of-the-creative-class/. Gender and Gentrification Kirsteen Paton, Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014). Winifred Curran, Gender and Gentrification (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2017).
Resources Progressive Contemporary Art Research Collection, online catalogue entry: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/art/record/111643?highlight=* Shona Macnaughton: Script read by the artist (available to all those with an EASE password) https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Progressive_Full/1_y9wqczb0
Introduction Part 1 Introduction to S hona Macnaughton sP rogressive (2017) Part 1, 8 minutes 40 seconds 40 seconds https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/OER+Macnaughton+Progressive+Part+1/1_k3gfbke8
Introduction Part 2 Screenshot of Part 2 video opening slide. Imgae of pregnant woman (as above) plus title information. Introduction to Shona Macnaughton sProgressive (2017) Part 2, 11 minutes https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/OER+Macnaughton+Progressive+Part+2/1_ yhi6plt4
Additional References Liz Bondi, Gender Divisions and Gentrification: A Critique , Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 16, no. 2 (1991): 190 98. Catriona Burness, Remember Mary Barbour , Scottish Labour History 50 (2015): 81 96. Neil Gray, ed., Rent and Its Discontents (London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018). Neil Gray and Gerry Mooney, Glasgow s New Urban Frontier: Civilising the Population of Glasgow East , City 15, no. 1 (2011): 4 24. Hamish Kallin, Opening the Reputational Gap , in Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment: The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma, ed. Paul Kirkness and Andreas Tije-Dra (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 103 18. Leslie Kern, From Toxic Wreck to Crunchy Chic: Environmental Gentrification through the Body , Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33, no. 1 (2015): 67 83 Gregory Sholette, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture (London; New York: Pluto Press, 2011).
Questions Questions 1. What links does the artist draw between her own body and the environment, and to what ends? 2. Is neoliberal urbanism a concern for feminist struggle?