Research Catalog

Title

Self-organised / Stine Hebert & Anne Szefer Karlsen (eds.).

Publication

London, U.K. : Open Editions ; Bergen, Norway : Hordaland Art Centre, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hebert, Stine.
• Szefer Karlsen, Anne, 1976-

Description

163 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

The current economic situation and society's low confidence in its institutions demands that artists become more imaginative in their self-organization. If labels such as 'alternative, ' 'non-profit' and 'artist-run' dominated the self-organized art scene of the late nineties, the separatist position implied by the use of these terms has been moderated during the intervening years. This new anthology of accounts from the frontline includes contributions by artist practitioners as well as their institutional counterparts providing a fascinating account of the art world as a matrix of positions where the balance of power and productivity constantly shifts. Artists, curators and critics discuss empirical and theoretical approaches from Europe, Africa and South and North America on how self-organization today oscillates between the self and the group, self-imposed bureaucratization and flexibility, aestheticization and activism. -- publisher's blurb.

Series Statement

Occasional table

Uniform Title

Occasional table

Subject

• Alternative spaces (Arts facilities)
• Nonprofit organizations
• Cooperative societies
• alternative spaces
• nonprofit organizations
• cooperative stores (built works)
• cooperatives (business enterprises)
• Künstler
• Soziale Situation
• Kunstbetrieb
• Eigeninitiative
• Nonprofit-Organisation

Genre/Form

v – Interviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

On de-organisation / Barnaby Drabble -- There is no alternative : the future is (self-)organised part 2 / Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen -- The inner and outer form of self-organisation / Maibritt Borgen -- Institutional experiments between aesthetics and activism / Jonas Ekeberg -- Too close to see : notes on friendship, a conversation with Johan Frederik Hartle / Céline Condorelli -- The almost institution / Livia Pancu -- What happened, happened / Linus Elmes -- My history of the history of L'appartement 22 / Abdellah Karroum -- Active recollection : archiving 'Group Material' / Julie Ault -- Defining the enemy and post-Fordist business as usual / What, How & for Whom/WHW -- All the wrong examples / Jan Verwoert -- Variables and constants / Juan A. Gaitán -- What more do you want than freedom? / Charles Esche interviewed by Ekaterina Degot & David Riff.

ISBN

• 0949004170
• 9780949004178

LCCN

2013432026

OCLC

• ocn845234936
• 845234936
• SCSB-1755123

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library