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Transformative Art Production

Transformative Art Production

Online compendium of the seminar Art Production in Restriction. Possibilities of Transformative Art Production and Coalition-Building, held in Trondheim, 2015

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  • Contributions
  • Further Reading and Documentation

Author: Gregory Sholette

Gregory Sholette is an artist and writer whose publications include It’s The Political Economy, Stupid co-edited with Oliver Ressler, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture, both Pluto Press UK, as well as Collectivism After Modernism with Blake Stimson University of Minnesota Press, and The Interventionists with Nato Thompson distributed by MIT. Sholette is an Associate of the Art, Design and the Public Domain program at the Graduate School of Design Harvard University, a member of the Curriculum Committee of Home WorkSpace Beirut, and a faculty member of the Queens College Art Department, City University of New York where he helped establish the new MFA Concentration SPQ (Social Practice Queens) http://www.gregorysholette.com http://www.darkmatterarchives.net
Contribution

Let’s Talk About The Debt Due: Art and Debt in The 21st Century

Gregory Sholette

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As early as 1984, the art historian Carol Duncan pinpointed a fundamental, though typically overlooked feature of high culture: that the majority of professionally trained artists make up a vast surplus whose utter redundancy is the normal condition of the art market. …Let’s Talk About The Debt Due: Art and Debt in The 21st Century

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