(Oct 2026: if you're having issues making a payment to join, get in touch!)
We run the Art & Politics Society with our members for the benefit of the greater Goldsmiths community as part of our ongoing commitment to #KeepGoldsmiths as a critical and experimental space for art and politics. We organise events, mixers, reading groups, and build this plane as we fly it, with you.
Any questions, email us: artpoliticssociety@goldsmithssu.org
Launched in 2025 by MA Art & Politics students (Dr. Bernadette Buckley, convenor) 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.
We're on Instagram and Linktree (for all up-to-date links). Also on LinkedIn.
Let's start the new 2026-2027 year with these events below, including the Whitechapel Gallery event with Peter Kennard and Gabby Samara, and our new Reading Group on The Authoritarian University (details and registration here).
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In 2025-2026, the Society organized a free Weekly Guest Speakers Series. Your membership fees contributed to the costs of bringing these stellar speakers, including comedian Stewart Lee, 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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