Public Art & The Economics of Imagination: Vid Simoniti on Art & Politics

What is the role of public art in shaping our collective imagination? How does economics influence what kind of art is allowed in our public spaces? Where are the opportunities for radical new types of creative activity that can shift what seems possible?

Join artist Toby Tobias Kidd as he explores all of these questions and more with guests including artists, curators, and philosophers in a new podcast series in collaboration with Kings College London, Future Narratives Lab, Art School Plus, and Professor Shanbaum of Coventry University.

On this inaugural episode, host Toby Tobias Kidd is joined by the philosopher Vid Simoniti, senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Art at the University of Liverpool.

Simoniti is a philosopher and writer who has written extensively about art and politics, perhaps most notably in his new book Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto, available through Yale University Press.