Szreder The ABC of the projectariat

Living and working in a precarious art world
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6134-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Whitworth Manuals

The ABC of the projectariat contributes new thinking and practical responses to the widespread problem of precarious labour in the field of contemporary art. It works as both a critical analysis and a practical handbook, speaking to and about the vast cohort of artistic freelancers worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szreder, Kuba

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Selbstständige & Freiberufler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstförderung, Mäzenatentum, Auktionen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A is for aftermath (COVID-19 as a forced suspension)
A is for Anti-fascist Year
A is for application
A is for Artyzol
A is for assemblage or apparatus
A is for art strikes (lessons to be taken)
A is for art workers
B is for belt-tightening
B is for (no) borders
B is for burn-outs (and other pathologies of responsibility)
C is for capital (economic, social, and symbolic)
C is for capture
C is for circulation
C is for control
C is for co-opetition
C is for co-optation
C is for curatorial mode of production / revolution
C is for cynicism and cliques
D is for dark matter
D is for deadline
D is for demonstration of paintings
E is for enthusiasm
E is for entrepreneurs of the self
E is for exclusion
E is for exodus
E is for expanded field (of art)
F is for fear
F is for Free/Slow (University of Warsaw)
F is for footprint (or carbon miles)
G is for generosity
G is for grant art (NGO-isation)
H is for herding cats
H is for home (office)
I is for independence
I is for instituting the commons
I is for interdependence
K is for (no) kids
L is for labour of love
M is for mutualising (risks and economies)
N is for neoliberalism
N is for networker
N is for numbers and measures
O is for one percent
O is for opportunism
P is for patainstitutions
P is for pollination
P is for poor (artists)
P is for precarity
P is for productive withdrawals
P is for project
P is for projectariat
R is for radical pragmatism
R is for repurposing
S is for seeing everything twice, or the catch 22 of the projectariat
S is for semi-peripheries
S is for sprint
S is for squabbles
S is for struggles
T is for time machines
T is for trawling
T is for turns, or on the vicious cycle
T is for twilight or support structures against exclusion
V is for visibility
W is for wages (for artwork)
W is for winner takes it all
Y is for you are not alone

Über Autor(innen)

Kuba Szreder is a lecturer in the department of art theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He combines his research with independent curatorial practice. His previous publications include Joy Forever: Political Economy of Social Creativity (2011) and Art Factory: Division of Labor and Distribution of Resources in the Field of Contemporary Art in Poland (2014). In 2018, together with Kathrin Böhm, he initiated Centre for Plausible Economies, a cluster devoted to reimagining economies of contemporary art and utilising artistic imagination to redraw the economy at large.