Could we live without advertising? In what way would we know what’s new on the market? Could we slow the train of life, production and consumption we have run so far? Is it so necessary the need for us to sell ourselves to acquire new pleasures? Why what we buy define our personalities? Do our politics have to do with the current trends in desire production simulacra? How can i let show in my work the consequences of this condition?
Description:
The collection, documentation, study and display of other creatures, cultures, and objects dates back to earliest civilizations. This tradition continues today in an updated interactive look. Within contemporary art, the critique of the institution both as content and form has become a well-established trend.
The workshop will combine presentations of historical and contemporary models with daily hands on activities suitable for all art forms. Historical models such as wonder cabinets, medical libraries, natural history museums will be examined for their cultural and political significance and the ongoing obsessive desire for the consumption of other cultures and life forms. Contemporary examples that mimic, comment, subvert and utilize these systems and display methods will also be presented. Students will discuss and examine these models, systems, research, and create a work specific to their medium and interests.
Goals:
Via examination of historical models and contemporary examples, participants will develop their own inventory and angle of inquiry.
Description:
Radical changes in the nature of work have lead to the current tendency to regard curatorial, artistic and cultural work as indicative of the ways in which all work is increasingly (forced to be) creative, flexible and precarious - making artists exemplary contemporary workers. Through selected projects of contemporary artists and groups we will explore the increased sharing of skills and expertise as well as the rising importance of communicative interconnections in what the autonomists call the ’social factory’.
Goals:
The internet is a complex media, everything in it turn into tangible realities that make it possible to turn crime and sabotage into identities dis-associations. The fake is more real than real and so is the result of this combination.
At this point in history, i believe, there was a radical change for the working-class; accustomed to manual labor they now have to deal with the novelty of computers. The interaction of the electronic apparatus specially computerized labor have change the life of these workers on personal and professional level, making up another kind of professional.
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