The Argument Room is a live, interactive debating forum involving two people, branching out from this to reach an unlimited number via the web. Its primary concerns are the arts and social justice. It has a focus on some important questions, such as:

• 'Does the artist have any responsibility to the public? If so, what is it?'
• 'Does contemporary art practice make any contribution to social justice or is that just a pleasing illusion?'
• 'If it does, what are those positive effects and are they scaleable?'
• 'To what extent can we identify causative factors that lead artists into their chosen career?'
• 'Who or what should be funded: the artist, the building, the process or the outcome?'

Discussions prompted by these questions will take place on a monthly basis with a different guest each month. Each time the host interviewer will be Chris Johnston, previously Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Warwick, Co-Director of Rideout and author of several books on performance practice. The discussion in every case will be streamed live, and you the audience will be able to send responses and questions in real time which will feed in to the discussion.