The main question of the workshop is how political and economic systems influence the production of art. Participants will experience how the competition of the market affects art production, self-regulation and beyond our body through discussions and performances based on praxeology. We will start the workshop with a lecture “Art as propaganda” on how the states’ art production support system and distribution structure have direct impact on art productions. The second part of the workshop will deal with one of the main component of the contemporary market economy - the competition. In a group effort and through a series of assignments, we will address the issue of competition and try to create new ways of understanding it.
Day 1. Lecture , Sylvia Sasse ‘Art as Propaganda and Performative Censorship’
Day 2. Art treated as a commodity by political and economic systems and production
Day 3. Power mechanisms and self-censorship
Day 4. Self-regulating tools: competition, the body and the work
2016.08.25-28. 14.00-17.00
