Art & Politics Society

By MA Art & Politics students for anyone interested in a range of empirical, aesthetic, conceptual and material issues that traverse and exceed both 'art' and ‘politics’ to speak with our current contemporaneity. ❗ Our membership fee is only £5.00 ❗ Join us now and help shape the Society for 2026-2027.

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The Society organizes a free Weekly Guest Speakers Series, as part of our ongoing commitment to #KeepGoldsmiths as a critical, experimental space for art and politics. Your membership fees contribute to the costs of bringing these stellar speakers to Goldsmiths.

Spring 2026 Speakers included: professor (Central St Martins), historian, and curator Michaela Crimmin, comedian Stewart Lee, ex-Sheffield Mayor and 'compassionate disruptor' Magic Magid, author and Chair of Photography & Media (Liverpool) Michelle Henning, artist and professor of Cross Disciplinary Art (Sheffield Hallam) Lise Autogena, award-winning artist and photographer, and UAL professor Edmund Clark, artist (YoHa) and professor in Critical Technical Practice at Goldsmiths Graham Harwood,  porcelain artist and PhD (Westminster) on counter-hegemony Victoria Burgher.

The series ran from 20 January to 17 March 2026, to resume in Autumn 2026.

Autumn 2025 speakers included American filmmaker and activist Jonathan Skurnik, ex-Margate Mayor and asylum activist Rob Yates, American artist and professor Joseph deLappe, MAAP alumna and artist Maria Gvardeitseva.

❗ In Autumn 2025, MA Art & Politics students and the Society successfully lobbied Goldsmiths administration to get module 'Art, War, Terror' reinstated after an admin error prevented enrollment earlier in the year.

❗ In Spring 2026, MA Art & Politics students and the Society fought against the cancellation and merger of our MA, as well as the campus-wide wave of redundancies and cuts in allyship with our Student Union.

Any questions, email us: artpoliticssociety@goldsmithssu.org

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