Spring Podcast

Many cultural movements relate to the crowd – from music, to football, to theatre. Being a part of a mass is clearly an integral aspect of the cultural drive… an event witnessed alone can be quite different from the same event in isolation.The scale of audience and participation builds into what defines the moment – feeds the tension, itself it is part of the spectacle. The experience of many thousands moving together, singing together or watching silently, together – all help define our relationship with the art. What drives this desire to immerse ourselves in humanity? What is the connection between our cultural habits and the collective? What kind of culture does collectivity help to build – and why do we crave it? Speakers- ALEX NIVEN - Author of ‘Oasis’ Definitely Maybe’ for Bloomsbury’s ’33/3′ series and lecturer in English at Newcastle University. OWEN HATHERLEY - Author of ‘Militant Modernism’ (Zero, 2009) and more recently ‘Landscapes of Communism’ (Allen & Unwin, 2015) and ‘The Ministry of Nostal