I’m not being paid for this conversation’
Uncovering the challenges of artist–academic collaborations in the neoliberal institution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12601647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alena Pfoser (0000-0002-8933-014X, Loughborough University, corresponding author), De Jong (0000-0002-5132-2777, University of York) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-333 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1367877919885951 |
| OpenAlex | W2981580114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 32 |
Artist–academic collaborations are fuelled by increasing institutional pressures to show the impact of academic research. This article departs from the celebratory accounts of collaborative work and pragmatic toolkits for successful partnerships, which are dominant in existing scholarship, arguing for the need to critically interrogate the structural conditions under which collaborations take place. Based on a reflexive case study of a project developed in the context of Tate Exchange, one of the UK’s highest-profile platforms for knowledge exchange, we reveal three sets of (unequal) pressures, which mark artist–academic collaborations in the contemporary neoliberal academy: asymmetric funding and remuneration structures; uneven pressures of audit cultures; acceleration and temporal asymmetries. Innovations at the level of individual projects or partners can only mitigate the negative effects to a limited extent. Instead this article offers a systemic critique of the political economy of artist–academic collaborations and shifts the research agenda to developing a collective response
Context (archaeology · Conversation · Institution · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reflexivity · Remuneration · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Artistic and Creative Research · Arts, Culture, and Music Studies · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law
Making Political Science
Reflecting on ‘Impact’ in Artist–Academic Collaborations in Times of Conflict
Emerging Artist Resilience Needs
‘Together We Prepare a Feast, Each Person Stirring Up Memory’
Sowing seeds in decolonial cracks for pluriversity
Anti-Frontiers in Zineing
Material and epistemic precarity
The Slow Professor
Institutions Trust Institutions Critiques by Artists of the BP/Tate Partnership
Tate Modern
‘Moving to stay in the same place?’ Academics and theatrical artists as exemplars of the ‘mobile middle’
Precarity Talk
Scholarship as Cultural Production in the Neoliberal University
Co-production
Collaboration as a problem of art's cultural form
The geographies of cultural geography II
Progress in Human Geography
The ignorant art museum
Collaboration Between Community Advocates and Academic Researchers
Real Participation or the Tyranny of Participatory Practice? Public Art and Community Involvement in the Regeneration of the Raploch, Scotland
Making space for co‐produced research ‘impact’
Geographies of impact
Clubs to Companies
Sonic geographies
Creativity and Geography
Are Academics Irrelevant
A/r/tographic Collaboration as Radical Relatedness
Collaboration as acknowledged co-production
Participatory theatre for transformative social research
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
The Production of Culture Perspective
Academics, Cultural Workers and Critical Labour Studies
| Citations per year | 1.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |