Anthony Davies

Biography

Anthony Davies is an independent researcher and occasional writer currently working in the BA Fine Art department at Central Saint Martins. He has participated in a range of collectives and is a founder member of MayDay Rooms, an educational charity based in London and set up as a safe haven for historical material linked to social movements and experimental culture (2011-2016). More recently, he helped set up DIY wireless communications connecting autonomous spaces in the Peripheries/Favelas and Workers' Occupied Houses in São Paulo, Brazil (e.g., Distributed Spaces 2: Housing Occupations Convene. Ocupação Mauá. December 6th, 2017).

As a writer, Davies has published in numerous journals including: Mute Magazine, Variant, Texte zur Kunst, Art Monthly, Metropolis M, Documents NY, On Curating and Nossa Voz. In the late 1990s for example, along with Simon Ford he developed a series of critical debates on young British art (yBa) and the Creative Industries. This was followed by articles in Mute Magazine on the neoliberal transformation of cultural and educational institutions. These and other texts including, 'There is No Alternative: The Future is Self-Organised Parts 1 & 2' co-written with Stephan Dillemuth and Jakob Jakobson, can also be found in various publications including: Potosi Principle Archive: Volume 1-4 (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2022), Arte e Ativismo: Antologia (MASP, 2021), Other Cinemas. Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970's (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017), Documents of Contemporary Art: Abstraction (ed. Maria Lind 2013) and The Market (ed. Natasha Degen 2014. Whitechapel and MIT Press), Proud to Be Flesh - A Mute Magazine Anthology of Cultural Politics after the Net (Mute 2009) and Art and Social Change. A Critical Reader (eds. Will Bradley and Charles Esche. Tate Publishing 2007).