SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

Resisting the creative economy on Liverpools north shore: Art-based political communication in practice. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork that has been carried out over the past two years, this research foregrounds the tensions that exist between two different forms of creativity, and the ways in which these are negotiated, in particular through the use of community-oriented film screenings as part of an activist repertoire that was developed by one artistic collective in the campaign to save their building from demolition. Dave a small business owner who had recently been forced to move from the Baltic Triangle to a warehouse on the ten streets gives his perspective on the current development of the latter. So their view their way of being is a little less attached to the actual area than the view of a group of people who are in the area bouncing off each other chatting away learning conspiring thinking and trying to work out what the fucks going on. Yet the incommensurable is precisely that which spaces like Dumbulls nurtures and it is in the Reel Merseyside screenings that a public sphere of filmmakers and audiences began to solidify around this notion as a form of counter-public that stands apart from the market and the larger more profit-oriented arts and cultural institutions in the city.