Artists, debt, and global activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4495286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark W Rectanus (0000-0001-8058-8745, Iowa State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-24 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Finance and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2059-5999 • E-ISSN: 2059-5999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2218/finsoc.v2i1.1661 |
| OpenAlex | W2588890706 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This article examines how artists, activism, and works of art may contribute to a more textured understanding of debt in contemporary society and culture. The diversity of aesthetic practices and range of strategic interventions in which artists are organizers and activists are manifest in the Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.), advocacy initiatives by Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and alternative, trans-local projects such as the Arts Collaboratory. These activist interventions provide the context for an examination of how artists have seized upon discourses related to debt and finance to produce works that offer a critical reappraisal of the global economy. Artists' projects by Martha Rosler, Cassie Thornton, Zachary Formwalt, and Michael Najjar challenge audiences to rethink the invisible networks of debt and exchange by creating new visual vocabularies for 'seeing' debt. The emergence of activist groups, such as Liberate Tate, has also signaled renewed interest in the ethics of corporate sponsorships, museums, and environmental issues. A heightened awareness of the ethical dimensions of debt and global support for activist movements may contribute to new notions of citizenship and performative democracy that can incite individual and collective renegotiations of how we might critically rethink debt
Aesthetics · Art · Debt · Democracy · Economics · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Finance
A Geology of Media
Your Everyday Art World
Debt to Society
The Gulf
Artwash
Debt Aesthetics
Culture Incorporated. Museums, Artists, and Corporate Sponsorships
Show Me the Money
The Rules of Abstraction
Branding, legitimation and the power of museums
Where has all the money gone? Materiality, mobility, and nothingness
Art and money
Debt
Foucault, the Museum and the Diagram
The Ghost in the Financial Machine
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |