Art Labour [electronic resource].

EDHEA art&fiction 2018

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We are sitting here at ECAV in our current working place, which is the salle de réunion at the administration. Our fingers are typing this letter to invite you to contribute a text within the Art Work(ers) research project. We are thinking about how closing factories and the use of industrial ruins have affected our ways of working in the arts, and of the promises of creative economies. What narratives have been created to tell stories of art and industrial production as well as of deindustrialisation. Besides looking at historical examples such as EAT, Artist Placement Group, Equipo 57 & Grupo Y, Solidarnos & Ryszand Wasko, or Agricola Cornelia, whose work emerges in between art and (industrial) production modes, we are thinking of perruques (homers) and strategies to “reinterpret” the Taylorist use of machines with Situationist strategies. The question that we have in mind is less “why X has happened” but rather “why the alternatives Y did not take place”… Our idea would be to collect in Blackout 1 writings on artists’ labour.
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Art criticism
Art--Economic aspects
Artists' writings
Capital movements
Library Science
Public Art
Sociology

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Art Work(ers)
Federica Martini
Christof Nüssli
Leah Anderson
Mabe Bethonico
Victor Galvão
Chrisantha Chetty
Robert Ireland
Guillaume Pilet
David Romero Torres
W.A.G.E.
Petra Köhle
Aurélie Strumans
Daniela Almansi
Jasmine Bakalarz
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