Artists as Producers [electronic resource].

European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies 2004

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Based on Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay “The Author as Producer,” an array of theorists have developed approaches towards an aesthetics of production. The texts of this issue investigate how Benjamin’s arguments may serve as a ground for reflecting and theorizing current art practices. What are the consequences of political art’s function of “supplying the capitalist production apparatus, not changing it”? How can artistic methods subvert cooptation following Brecht and Tretyakov? Where are there new models of artists/intellectuals as producers and “specialists” rather than experts for the universal?
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Art criticism
Critical Theory
Feminist Theory
Historical Materialism
Political art

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Simon Sheikh
Ivana Momcilovic
Gerald Raunig
Maria Lind
Friedrich Tietjen
Bojana Cvejic
Michaela Pöschl
LIGNA
Boris Buden
Christian Kravagna
Christina Nemec
Rosa Reitsamer
Ulf Wuggenig
Walter Benjamin