Talk with The Alternative School of Economics
17th October 2025
Parade commission and exhibition
Exhibition 12th-27th July 2025
Parade 17th July 2025
Installation of LIKE GODS at Deptford Lounge
1-30 November 2024
Libraries at Spaceships workshops, 15 & 16 November 2024
With Jessa Mockridge, Ruth Beale, and Oisín Roberts (Think Big Read Library), Kaiya Waerea & Sophie Paul
12 June 2024, 7pm
3 May – 3 Jul 2024
Group exhibition with Deniz Beşer, Charlotte Fleischmann and Laura Lohmann of OUTsite, Anna Gaberscik, Gala Alica Ostan Ožbolt, curated by Fiona Irene Graf
4-25 November 2023
Group exhibition featuring The Alternative School of Economics (Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck), Association de Arte Útil, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) and Renzo Martens, Company Drinks, Goldin+Senneby, Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder (Centre for Plausible Economies), lumbung Kios, Owen Griffiths and Alessandra Saviotti, Rosalie Schweiker and Tŷ Pawb
30 June – 22 October 2023
Group exhibition featuring Bea and Jill, Dust London, Katherine Smith, Kimberley Cookey-Gam, Yolanda Shields, dot.i, VIA, Ruth Beale and Izzy Duck
10 May – 5 August 2023
30 March 2023
Solo show
9 February – 30 March 2023, preview 9 February 6-8pmEditorial Tables, Reciprocal Hospitalities, The Showroom, London
Group exhibition
25 January – 18 March 2023
Workshop & book launch with special guests The Brightness of Juju
28 January 2023, 1-4pm
Talk & workshop
29 November 2021, 5-7pm
Group exhibition curated by Jitka Hlaváčková. Nomination by Andrea Průchová Hrůzová
24 May – 11 September 2022
Workshop with Constellations cohort
19 May 2022
Free outdoor workshop with drawing and listening, led by The Alternative School of Economics
21 May 2022, 2-4pm
Ruth Beale & David Beale in conversation
13 January 2022, 2-3pm
Limited edition book (25 copies) now available to purchase, launched during Libraries Week
7 October 2021
The World is a Work in Progress, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
New commission for group exhibition featuring Ruth Beale, Michael Forbes, Khush Kali, Vince Laws, Bob & Roberta Smith, Kai Syng Tan & Jessica Voorsanger.
25 September 2021 – 16January 2022
The Hundred Club, TACO! & Lesnes Abbey Woods, London
Experimental creative club for children to explore social justice issues, based on democractic education principals.
From May 2021
On Grief, Loss & Ritual
Zine compiled by Ruth Beale featuring R.I.P. Germain, Every Ocean Hughes Priya Jay and Nisha Ramayya, and interviews with Hester Abrams & Manju Patel
20 May 2020
Library as Memorial, Kilburn Library, Brent Biennial, London
Commission for London Borough of Culture
19 September 2020 – May 2021
www.rabbitsroadinstitutelibrary.org
New website for Rabbits Road Institute Library, a project by The Alternative School of Economics. Designed by An Endless Supply
March 2021
Online toolkits: Artist podcasts, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Online workshop for members of EOP
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 2-3.30 pm
Writing Together, Pen to Print, London
Writing workshops in collaboration with Amy Feneck as The Alternative School of Economics / Rabbits Road Institute Library
2nd, 16th, 30th March, 2.30-4.30pm
Free Drawing School, Hospitalifield, Arbroath
Online collage workshop around the theme of care with Amy Feneck as The Alternative School of Economics
Saturday 27th February, 3pm-5pm
Cognitive Dissonance: between ecological thought and neoliberal imagination
Talk and discussion, in collaboration with Amy Feneck as The Alternative School of Economics
Wednesday 2 December 2020, 1-4pm
Time(un)line: Deep Time & the Genesis of Crisis, Arts Catalyst
In collaboration Amy Feneck as The Alternative School of Economics
Wednesday 28 October 2020, 1-5pm
What do libraries do? Art Review & Brent Biennial
In-conversation with Oliver Basciano & Brian Griffiths
Tuesday 27 October 2020, 6.30pm
Project Zed, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln / online / FM radio
Free on Soundcloud
National Prison Radio: 17th August 12pm & 6pm (premiere, prison network only)
Montez Press Radio: 27th August 4pm
Resonance FM: 30th August 1.30pm
Lincoln City Radio: 5th September 3.30pm & 6th September 11.30am
Siren Radio: 31st August 8pm & 4th September 7pm
Prison Conversations, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln / online
Two talks, co-hosted with Bhav Bhella
Incarceration, power and the state – Tuesday 1 September 2020, 5.30pm
Arts, education and agency in prisons – Thursday 3 September 2020, 5.30pm
The End of the Present, Arts Catalyst, online
Residency and public events, including Time(Un)Line: Mapping Crises
in collaboration with Amy Feneck as The Alternative School of Economics
Friday 30 July 2020, 1-5pm
True Currency: About Feminist Economics
Podcast series in collaboration with Amy Feneck, commissioned by Gasworks
Launching 16 July 2020, weekly for 6 weeks
Gasworks Participation Residency, London
As The Alternative School of Economics with Amy Feneck
September 2019 – April 2020
‘#DFTBA’, Fungus Press Residency, Croydon
Public realm commission by Turf Projects
September – November 2019
‘Learning by Doing: A Politics of Practice’, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen
Group exhibition with work by The Alternative School of Economics
4 October – 16 November 2019
‘Challenging interdependence: structures for working together’, Gasworks, London
Workshop and discussion responding to the Art Licks Weekend theme of Interdependence
Saturday 12th October 2019, 2 – 4pm, free
‘Performance as Publishing presents Chooc Ly Tan’, private address, London
Part of At Home, a performance series in the spirit of the zine.
Saturday 28 September 2019
‘Clear Spot’, Resonance 104.4FM
Show presented by artist Fari Bradley and guest-produced by Pierre D’Alancaissez, with Kathrin Bohm & Hilary Koob-Sassen
Wednesday 25th September 2019
‘Performance as Publishing presents a reading by Diano Policarpo’, London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Sunday 8 September 2019, 3.30-5pm
‘Freedom: Public Conversations’, Mansions of the Future, Lincoln
An exhibition of ‘All the Banners (Silent)’, and 4 public events:
28 February – PRIZZZON: Talk & discusion with Lisa Selby/bluebaglife & Carl Cattermole
16 March – Writing workshop: Dystopian Worldbuilding, with Angeline Trevena
27 March – Doing Things Together: Artists’ Talk
30 March – Migration, Brexit & Freedom of Movement: Communal Lunch co-hosted with Lincoln Polish Society
23 February – 30 March 2019
‘Performance as Publishing at Home – Erica Scourti’, private address, London
New series of performance evenings and dinner
9 March 2019, 7pm
‘Making It Happen: New Community Architecture’, RIBA, London
Exhibition featuring Rabbits Road Institute Library, a project by The Alternative School of Economics
30 January – 27 April 2019
‘The Rural: Commons’, Manchester School of Art
Event organised in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery
15 November 2018, 6-8pm
‘Speaking to the City’, Phytology, London
The Alternative School of Economics residency and evolving billboard commission
1 September – 14 December 2018, launch with campfire and lunch, 1 September, 1pm
‘House of Wisdom’, Bonington Vitrines, Nottingham
Exhibition curated by the Istanbul-based Collective Çukurcuma, exploring the political power of books and libraries
28 September – 27 October 2018
‘Fig Futures: Ruth Beale’, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
Solo show in the Rotunda Gallery
15-19 May 2018
‘The Britishness Project’, Firstsite, Colchester
New collaborative artworks by The Alternative School of Economics
17 March – 17 June 2018
‘School for Commoners’, Museum of London
Commissioned for the Festival of Radical Fun, part of Fun Palaces weekend
7 October 2017, 11am-4pm
‘Who Owns it? Can I Hold it?’, Performance 4 Evenings, Caberet Voltaire, Zurich
Performance evening with Søren Berner
19 September 2017, 8pm
‘Work in Common’, Primary, Nottingham
Summer residency, September 2017
Public event: Movement Workshop with Mark Boylan, 8 September 2017, 6.30pm
‘Test Sites Poole Workshop’, for Arts Catalyst at Lighthouse, Poole
Workshop as The Alternative School of Economics, bringing together local activists, academics and creative practitioners to consider the economies of Poole Harbour
8 July 2017, 11.30am-5.30pm
‘This is Public Space’, Up Projects
Web commission
20 March – 19 May 2017
‘Quids In’, Friday Late, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Alternative School of Economics presents new works, activities and screening of The Fiction of Money
31 March 2017
‘Good Society Sunday Lunch’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Lunch and discussion for under 30s, commissioned by the Webb Memorial Trust and Edge Hill University
12 March 2017
‘Subjectivity and the Archive’, Northern Charter, Newcastle
Workshop for students and public, organised by George Vasey, Curatorial Fellow at Newcastle University
16 February 2017, 3-4pm
‘Monday Guest Lecture’, Central Saint Martins, Fine Art
13 February 2017
‘Many Ways Are Possible: The Economics of Utopia’, Somerset House, London
With Aditya Chakrabortty & Ann Pettifor. Part of the Utopia talk series
21 January 2017
‘Lantern Lecture: Shami Chakrabarti’, Rabbits Road Institute, London
Hosted by The Alternative School of Economics
12 January 2017
‘The Syllabus Workshop’, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
With Jeremy Akerman
9 December 2016
‘Peckham Platform Retrospective’, Peckham Platform, London
Exhibition of the past 20 projects before the gallery moves to a new space
25 November 2016 – 5 March 2017
‘Tensegrity’, Tenderpixel, London
Symposium organised by Monica Ursina Jäger and Damian Christinger
18-19 November 2016
‘Take One / Take Two / Take Three’, Lux, London
Special screening of 9 new performance-broadcasts and 12 artists’ films
13 November 2016, 12-4pm
‘Art/Agency/Ecology: Sites and Citations’, ONCA, Brighton
Group exhibition curated by Hemera Collective, part of Brighton Photo Fringe
19-30 October 2016
‘Library Launch’, Rabbits Road Institute, London
An afternoon event celebrating a new artwork by The Alternative School of Economics: a permanent collection of books nominated by collaborators, friends and participants.
22 October 2016, 12.30-6pm
‘De regreso a la isla’ (‘A Return to the Island’), Casal Solleric, Palma de Majorca
Group show curated by Helena Lugo
14 July – 18 September 2016
‘Conversations That Matter’, Rabbits Road Institute, London
Launch of publication made with Amy Feneck about Conversation Club
14 July 2016, 3-5.30pm
‘A City without Artists’, Spike Island, Bristol
Presentation about Rabbits Road Institute, as part of afternoon discussion event
18 June 2016, 3-5pm
‘The Rich as a Minority Group’, Rabbits Road Institute, London
Exhibition and event series, with Amy Feneck / The Alternative School of Economics
23 April – 7 May 2016
‘Take 1, Take 2, Take 3‘, Eastside Projects, Birmingham and thisistomorrow.info
Broadcast event series, with Eddie Peake, Ruth Beale, Phil Coy, Nicole Bachmann, Marie Toseland & Sophie Mallett, and works from the Lux collection
Final broadcast: 6 May 2016, 7-8.30pm
‘Precarity Centre’, Grand Union, Birmingham
An Alternative School of Economics workshop around precarity, for They Are Here’s Precarity Centre exhibition
28 February 2016, 2-4.30pm
‘TEXT2SPEECH’, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Reading group with the ICA Student Forum
25 February 2016, 6-8pm
‘A Future Library’, Open School East, London
An evening of talks hosted by OOMK and Book Works
21 January 2016, 6.30pm
‘Artists in residence’, LUX Artists’ Moving Image, London
Residency with Nicole Bachmann as Performance as Publishing
January 2016 – March 2016