Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Morgan Quaintance on art and class

LUX artists Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Morgan Quaintance discuss art and class in relation to Zimmerman’s most recent film Art Class (2020), streamed on the LUX website until 16 October 2021 and Quaintance’s Another Decade (2018). Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award winning artist, filmmaker and cultural activist whose work focuses on aspects of working class experience, and that of people living on the margins of society, that are seldom seen or discussed. Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely. Over the past ten years, his critically incisive writings on contemporary art, aesthetics and their socio-political contexts, have featured in publications including Art Monthly, the Wire, and the Guardian. We discuss the ways in which class is instrumentalised by mainstream and popularised tropes, and structural concerns affecting many working class artists today, and how we need to make space for those not yet part of the conversation. How are the conversations around art and class shaped by stakeholders? We talk though imaginative refusals and being in coalition with each other. How to refuse the tropes that deny multiplicity? How to enable different imaginative versions of lives lived, and therefore, to also imagine differently? What are the social and political and imaginative possibilities