Title: Work /
Authors: Sigler, Friederike
Year: 2017
Subjects: Art Economic aspects; Work; Art Economic aspects; Work; Art Aspect économique.; Travailleurs dans l'art.; Travail dans l'art.; Travail.; Kunst; Arbeit
Abstract: Warhol's Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism's assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers' conditions in the 1970s -- these are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, the 'Work Ethic' exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Baltimore Museum of Art took its cue from recent art to spotlight this earlier era of artistic practice in which activity became as valid as, and often dispensed with, object-production. Revealed through this prism was 'dematerialized' art's close and critical relation to the emergent information age's criteria of management, production and skill. 00By 2015, the Venice Biennale reflected artists' wider concern with global economic and social crises, centered on exploitative and precarious worlds of employment. Yet while art increasingly engages with human travail, work's significance in itself is seldom addressed by critics. This anthology explicitly investigates work in relation to contemporary art, surveying artistic strategies that grapple with the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy, a postproducer, a collaborator, a fabricator, a striker, an ethical campaigner, or would-be transformer of labor from oppression to liberation.
Contents: ART WORKERS AND THE NEW ECONOMY. X notes on practice: Stubborn structures and insistent seepage in a networked world, 2004 / Raqs Media Collective --- Immaterial labour, 1996 / Maurizio Lazzarato -- When life goes to work: Andy Warhol, 2010 / Isabelle Graw -- Dirty commerce: Art work and sex work since the 1970s, 2012 / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Rottenberg pearls, 2016 / Jonathan Beller -- wo/manifesto, 2008 / W.A.G.E. -- The work of critique and normative change, 2001 / Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello --- In conversation with Nicolaus Schafhausen, 2016 / Goshka Macuga -- Real encounters, 2013 / Lamia Joreige -- Capitalist realism: Is there no alternative?, 2009 / Mark Fisher -- POSTPRODUCTION. In conversation with Christine Fricke, Petra Schwarz and Bernd Ziesemer, 2005 / Tino Sehgal -- Under the sign of labour, 2006 / Sabeth Buchmann --- Bodies in use, 2016 / Isabelle Lindermann -- In conversation with Tom Finkelpearl, 2000 / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Brothers in arms: Laboratoire AGIT'Art, 2014 / Clémentine Delis -- Museum of Proletarian Culture, the industrialization of Bohemia, 2012 / Maria Chekhonadshik -- The server/user mode: On Olafur Eliasson, 2007 / Caroline A. Jones -- Postproduction, 2002 / Nicolas Bourriaud -- The spectre of capital, 2014 / Joseph Vogl -- In conversation with Tom Holert, 2012 / Melanie Gilligan -- Mechanics of meaning, or the painting machine, 2003 / Anne Wagner -- Inventing the future: Postcapitalism and a world without work, 2015 / Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams --