Comments on: I would like to start with the consideration that neoliberalism as a political rationality which has heavily impacted on the figure of the artist and on the institutional context where art is operating has become kind of exhausted. It seems like it has become a space without potential and without promise, which however persists as the dominant framework. We are more conscious both of its mechanisms of identification (the artist as entrepreneur) and its structural commitment to creating large inequalities among artists and cultural producers in order to produce value hierarchies. I would like to know how the forum feels about this statement. What has happened to artistic and cultural labor which is kind of irreversible? How are artists dealing with this condition? – Answer #1 – by blupi http://www.htww.space/i-would-like-to-start-with-the-consideration-that-neoliberalism-as-a-political-rationality-which-has-heavily-impacted-on-the-figure-of-the-artist-and-on-the-institutional-context-where-art-is-operatin/ Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:33:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: blupi http://www.htww.space/i-would-like-to-start-with-the-consideration-that-neoliberalism-as-a-political-rationality-which-has-heavily-impacted-on-the-figure-of-the-artist-and-on-the-institutional-context-where-art-is-operatin/#comment-19 Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:33:29 +0000 http://www.htww.space/254-2/#comment-19 Thanks for this Tiziana it looks very interesting. It made me think to this book which I think is a good complement even if not at all in the economic question: Nicolas Bourriaud, “The Radicant” https://fr.scribd.com/doc/77899219/Nicolas-Bourriaud-The-Radicant
He is speaking about how new artists and people in general are leaving the idea of radicality in favor of an “altermodernity” in which we can grow plural and moving roots.

]]> By: Tiziana Terranova http://www.htww.space/i-would-like-to-start-with-the-consideration-that-neoliberalism-as-a-political-rationality-which-has-heavily-impacted-on-the-figure-of-the-artist-and-on-the-institutional-context-where-art-is-operatin/#comment-16 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:08:56 +0000 http://www.htww.space/254-2/#comment-16 thank you blupi, your answer made me think of this book recently published in Italian, where the economist Christian Marazzi held a seminar to a group of artists about ‘surplus value’. http://www.dinamopress.it/bussola/christian-marazzi-introduzione-al-plusvalore
Marazzi starts with the example of the commodification or serialization art in the late nineteenth century to talk about the origins and transformations of the theory of value. It tries to argue for an original position for the artist in the contemporary economy. So it would be more than being inside and outside, but being inside in a ‘differential way’… I am struck by the coexistence of so many different ways of ‘doing art’ in contemporary culture, whose relation to the market is far from univocal or resolved…

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