| Description |
328 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Role play: an introduction to The artist As / Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, and Tara McDowell -- The artist as producer / Walter Benjamin -- The artist as quarry / Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr -- The artist as thread on artist-organised infrastructure / Tara McDowell -- The artist as director "Artist Organisations International" and its contradictions / Ekaterina Degot -- The book of drafts (part 3) / Heman Chong -- A live project that is not fixed for anyone / Emily Pethick -- The artist as ethnographer? / Hal Foster -- Back in the habit(us) / Isabel Lewis, Adam Linder -- The artist as poet / Cecilia Vicuña -- The artist as archivist / Brook Andrew -- The artist as Forger / Helen Hughes -- Artists as curators / curators as artists / Terry Smith -- CODA, Many other things first / Helen Johnson |
| Summary |
Does the way artists work today impact the ecology of art? Has the pluralism of art given way to a pluralism of roles that artists may occupy? What are the contemporary conditions of labor producing this new state of affairs, and what re-skilling does it ask of artists? These are some of the questions addressed in The Artist As, which comprises a number of contributions that seek to understand or explain the ways artists move through the world, and how that movement might necessitate other roles to pursue a project, a position, a politics, or a practice. For any given project, the artist may act as producer, quarry, thread, director, writer, orchestrator, ethnographer, choreographer, poet, archivist, forger, curator, and many other things first. Rather than self-identify solely as painters or sculptors, artists are now free to occupy specific roles temporarily, in what could be described as a kind of ?occupational drag,? which is taken from Elizabeth Freeman?s term ?temporal drag.? |
| Notes |
Based on a lecture series with the same title that ran throughout 2016 |
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Book cover comes in various colors |
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University lectures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Art and philosophy.
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Art and society.
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Art -- Exhibition techniques.
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Artists -- Philosophy.
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Artists -- Social conditions.
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Artists.
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Arts.
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| Author |
Burns, Aileen.
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Lundh, Johan.
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McDowell, Tara.
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| ISBN |
3956792750 |
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9783956792755 (paperback) |
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