Dr. Sarah Lowndes is a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art. Her previous publications include Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene (2010) and All Art is Political: Writings on Performative Art (2014). Lowndes has contributed to art journals including Frieze and Afterall and to catalogues including Richard Wright (Rizzoli, 2009) and Dieter Roth: Diaries (Yale University Press, 2012).
The author brings together a remarkably diverse set of creative ventures, such as bands, record labels and live-music venues, exhibition spaces, art galleries and bookstores, as well as magazines and publishing imprints, among others, while demonstrating how these pursuits reflect but also, crucially, affect the social and cultural environments within which they occur. -- Mari Valdur, University of Helsinki, European Association of Social Anthropologists