Big Ideas: Dan Hancox on Multitudes

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Big Ideas: Dan Hancox on Multitudes

For the next talk in our Big Ideas series, join journalist Dan Hancox in conversation with transdisciplinary artist Adam Moore as they explore his latest book Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World.

Despite what politicians, philosophers, and the press have long told us, every peaceful crowd is not a violent mob in waiting. In Multitudes, Dan Hancox argues it is time to rethink long-held assumptions about crowd behaviour and psychology, as well as the part crowds play in our lives. The story of the modern world is the story of the multitude in action. Crowds are the ultimate force for change: the bringer of conviviality, euphoria, mass culture, and democracy.

Expanding upon these ideas around crowds and collective bodies, Adam Moore will also trace the connections of participation, touch, intimacy, and movement that draw together his own artistic practice with our current exhibitions by Lygia Clark and Sonia Boyce. In this, creating space and raising questions about alternative ways of reading and relating to Multitudes through the lens of visual art and participatory artistic practice.

Hancox will be around to sign copies of Multitudes after the event.

Supported by Stanley Picker Trust.

About Dan Hancox

Dan Hancox is a journalist who writes about music, politics, cities, riots and protest, chiefly for the Guardian and Observer, but also the New York TimesNewsweek, Vice, New Statesman and Financial Times. His books include Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime (William Collins, 2018) and The Village Against The World (Verso, 2013).

About Adam Moore

Adam Moore is a transdisciplinary artist, dancer, and writer from London making performance, installation, design, public art, and site-related interventions with collaborative socially engaged forms. Public artwork’s include Glow home (2024) commissioned by Culture Within Newham; Still life was commissioned by Devonshire Collective and Eastbourne Alive celebrating the 2023 Turner Prize. In 2023 he was V&E East X Bow Arts inaugural Artist Fellow, and was awarded Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice and the Jerwood New Work Fund. He co-designed and facilitated Camden Art Centre’s Transformative Futures 2021-2023 programme. Adam teaches Fine Art at the University of East London.