Since the financial crisis started at the end of 2007 a lot of governments do budget cuts in the cultural and artistic field. These policy decisions originated from the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse are understood within an ideological framework as ‘repressive liberalism’. It claims to advocate freedom of individual, encourages creating more culture businesses to establish creative city, and on the other hand, it develops a giant dispersive control device repressing the freedom of art and individual. Within this cultural policy, creative labor itself can also be ‘instrumentalized’ as a repressive tool. In these workshops Pascal Gielen analyses the relationship between art, politics and the public space in the creative city on a global level, while looking into how activists and creative ‘workers’ respond to this policy by organizing themselves in alternative ways.
2016.08.16-19. 17.30-20.30
