Recognizing the risk of such a method being appropriated for other aims, Graham will articulate some beginnings and possibilities for a viable para-sitic project in her manifesto coming out of this series. While the historical research in Graham’s essay emphasizes a para-sitic approach that has a specific ethics embedded in it (i.e., she focuses on the para-site’s assumed potential within the realm of culture to effect change for broader social justice), Graham will evaluate the actual function of the para-site through a series of conversations with collaborators in the remaining texts.
Accompanied by a partial taxonomy of the para-site, where microbial definitions are offered in relation to their cultural counterparts, this essay traces a genealogy of the para-sitic condition by examining practices grounded in gallery education and Community Arts practices in the UK, as well as broader radical or popular education models. Graham’s series of texts examines the para-sitic condition as a potential coordinated political struggle, one that might make “good on culture’s claim to social transformation” by working para (i.e., alongside), within, and as other to institutions.īelow, the first essay in this series, “What is this para-sitic tendency?,” maps the contemporary terrain of this political project under late neoliberalism. “Para-sites like us” is an ongoing research project initiated by Janna Graham, the inaugural Six Degrees resident.
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