Title & Author:

Work, work, work : a reader on art and labour / contributions by Pierre Bal-Blanc ... [and 24 others] ; edited by Cecilia Widenheim, Lisa Rosendahl, Michele Masucci, Annika Enqvist, and Jonatan Habib Engqvist.

Publication:

Stockholm : IASPIS, Konstnärsnämnden ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2012]

Description:

287 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Title from page [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction by the editors / Cecilia Widenheim, Lisa Rosendahl, Michele Masucci, Annika Enqvist, and Jonatan Habib Engqvist -- The paradox of art and work : an irritating note / Lars Bang Larsen -- Don't smile, organise / Nina Power -- Work as commodity / Helena Mattsson -- Art as occupation / Hito Steyerl -- A sense of solidarity / Ingela Johansson & Nina Svensson -- Give more than you take / Pratchaya Phinthong -- Give more than you take / Pierre Bal-Blanc -- The general intellect is looking for a body / Franco "Bifo" Berardi -- After hours : art, imagination and the residue of the working day / Raqs Media Collective -- Chinese business / Mladen Stilinović -- Just as money is paper, so a gallery is a room / Jonatan Habib Engqvist -- The jobless state : work, global assembly line, indolence / Sarat Maharaj -- Creating, working, deforming and producing in the biopolitical factory / Judith Revel.
Some reflections on student protest, anti-cuts activism, and artistic and intellectual autonomy / Kirsten Forkert -- Arbeitswelt / Annika Eriksson -- Obliquely, inconceivably and out of our hands : reflections on the conditions for artistic work in bringing about change / Catharina Gabrielsson -- Precarious life within the creative crisis of finance capital / Michele Masucci -- A r/c tivism and tactical spatial practices / Ana Betancour -- Open letter / Making a Living -- A living body performing its own autopsy within contemporary capitalism / OTCOP -- Two years : the dematerialisation of the art institution / Lisa Rosendahl -- A residency as workplace / Cecilia Widenheim -- A midsummer night's dream / Maria Lind -- Toward a methodology / Annika Eriksson -- Production of imaginary solutions / Joanna Sokołowska.

Summary:

"The relationship of art to work and the conditions of artistic production has long engaged many in the field of visual art. Work is a broad concept, the meaning of which has changed radically as a result of the social and technological transformations that have taken place over the past century. What, then, is "work" today and what is its relation to art? What is the position of the artist if "creativity" has become a commodity? How can the artist's conditions of production be described, and what role can art and architecture play in societal change? The texts in this reader provide perspectives on some of these questions emerging from the series of seminars conducted during the late autumn of 2010 at Iaspis in Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international program for visual art, architecture, crafts, and design. The seminars brought together visual artists, architects, theoreticians, curators, and writers with diverse backgrounds and experience. They were arranged into three themes: the relationship between art and work, the current conditions of production and the organization of work within the field of visual art, and the role of art and architecture in politics and society."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9783943365160 (Sternberg)
3943365166 (Sternberg)
9789197888233 (IASPIS)
9197888230 (IASPIS)
9781934105610

Subject:

Work Art.
Art and social action.
Travail Art.
Art et action sociale.
Work

Form/genre:

Art

Added entries:

Bal-Blanc, Pierre, author.
Widenheim, Cecilia, editor.
Rosendahl, Lisa, editor.
Masucci, Michele, editor.
Enqvist, Annika, editor.
Engqvist, Jonatan Habib, editor.
International Artists Studio Programme in Sweden.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283568
Call No.: BIB 221894
Status: Available