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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810267903321

Autore

Haiven Max <1981->

Titolo

Art after money, money after art : creative strategies against financialization / / Max Haiven

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pluto Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-78680-318-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

706.8

Soggetti

Art - Economic aspects

Money in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. Financialization and the imagination -- The best of enemies, the worst of friends -- Why bother? Activist questions -- Caveats toward abolition.

Part one. Three point five artistic strategies to envision money's mediation. Crises of representation -- Money, abstraction and transformation -- The art of money, the financialization of art, and a half-strategy -- Strategy 1: revelation -- Strategy 2: reflexivity -- On mediation -- Strategy 3: rendering labor visible.

Part two. Six artists x two crises x three orders of reproduction. Three theories of reproduction == Three artists, c.1973 -- Dawning financialization.

Part three. Zero participation: benign pessimism, tactical parasitics and the encrypted common. You can't give it away like you used to -- Social practices -- Cruel optimism.

Part four. Encryption: art's crypt, securitization in numbers, derivative socialities. The cryptic market -- A financialized society of control -- Freeport empire -- Palaces of encrypted culture -- A crypt within a crypt -- Popular unrest -- Derivative sociality -- Debtfair -- Epilogue: Beyond crypto.

Conclusion. Toward abolitionist horizons. A abolitionist approach -- Another reproduction -- Beyond fascism.

Sommario/riassunto

Haiven uses money-art--the work of visual, performance and participatory artists who use money as medium or material for artistic



intervention or expression--to help tell a story or a suite of short stories, about the relationship between culture and the economy in a time when the line between the two is increasingly blurred. By exploring the way contemporary artists engage with cash, debt and credit, the author identifies and assesses a range of creative strategies for mocking, sabotaging, exiting, decrypting and hacking capitalism today. --Adapted from publisher description.