![]() ![]() ![]() These thinkers include Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Źižek, Felix Guattari and Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi among others. My project also builds on the findings of contemporary theorists of Neo-Marxist persuasion who address the social, subjective and ecological shortcomings of the current phase of global capitalism. Two key early proponents of this way of thinking are Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, who both figure prominently in my research project. My studio-based and written research draws on theoretical resources allied with the tradition of Marxist critical theory, which locate socially critical potential within phenomena considered obsolete within the context of capitalism. I argue that the outmoded forms given new life in my art hark back to times in the past when it seemed easier to imagine a space and a thinking outside the dominant socio-economic system of modern Western culture when faith in inventing alternative visions of the world via utopian imagination seemed more vital. Detailed analysis of the twin foci of my research will elaborate how and why I incorporate and reconfigure outmoded forms in my art practice, and through this contribute new knowledge to the contemporary art field. It will also examine the role of obsolete technologies and ways of living in other contemporary art, asking whether the rekindling of anachronistic forms possess critical agency in the present. My thesis investigates the theoretical, socio-cultural and formal issues associated with my interest in these outmoded phenomena. The two instances of obsolescence are old fashioned, pre-cinematic optical devices and the social model of the counterculture commune. ![]() This thesis explains the reasoning behind the convergence of two cases of the outmoded and the anachronistic in my art practice. In creating extraordinary materially-intensive, unusual and in a word, uncommon, aesthetic situations, artists are asking just what kinds of global communities we have created with our international flow of goods. She discusses art that addresses the ethics of international migrant labor, outsourced manufacturing, the limits of global resources, and debates over intellectual copyright. Hamilton Faris argues that the processes of globalization parallel a rise in artists who are engaged in foregrounding typical global goods in their work in order to register, on a sensate level, the complex negotiations and ambivalences they have with the commodity’s fantastic becoming. The very notion of everyday commodity material has expanded dramatically since the re-organization of world trade in the nineties. the urinal or the bicycle wheel), but now it includes information, media, labor and services even land and natural resources are more available to a "readymade" prepackaged consumer market than in the past. What is a commodity, what do we define as predominate global commodities and how is this structure supported and maintained? The readymade object used to mean a simple appropriation of durable goods incorporated into the art frame (i.e. She argues that artists have turned the predominate question of the readymade inside out: from one that questions the nature of art, to one that questions the nature of the commodity. Uncommon Goods traces the current use of common materials in art as a renewed engagement with the readymade. Texts by: TJ Demos | Rachel Weiss | Timothy Miller Dirk Hoyer | Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini | Hernando Marcial Ricci Araujo, Lorenzo Ganzo Galarça, James Block, Manoela Guimarães Gomes, Edson Luiz André de Sousa, Sofia Tessler, Léo Tietboehl | Laia Manonelles Moner | Efrén Giraldo Quintero & Jorge Lopera Gómez | Kylie Banyard | Concepción Cortés Zulueta | Magdalena Schulz-Ohm | Nadja Gnamuš | Mercè Alsina | Antonio R. Understanding the symbolic as an expanded field that merges with the performative and the spatial, this issue also includes contributions that consider the utopian dimensions of political and communitarian practices. In this respect, it conducts a reflection on artistic practices and the expression of the utopian within contemporary visual culture. Within the framework of the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia, REG | AC journal dedicates a monographic edition to NON-TEXTUAL UTOPIAS, seeking to reflect on utopias that are not based on the written text. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |