Occupying Contemporary Art

An interesting, if strange, question posed by the BBC’s Paul Mason about whether the Occupy movement signals the death of contemporary art.  Given that his piece (and presumably also the film on which it is based) proceeds to look at … Continue reading →

Abandoning money

Some interesting – if rare – proof that we can live without money.  One day…..

http://www.openculture.com/2012/04/the_man_who_quit_money_–_and_lived_to_tell_about_it.html

The censorious marketplace

More on censorship in a piece in today’s Guardian.  It is interesting not only because it reveals that even the frankly anodyne  Damien Hirst is being censored by the new masters of the contemporary art market, but because of what … Continue reading →

Does censorship make things ‘interesting’?

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In light of the discussion about censorship last week in Cairo, Ai Weiwei has an interestingly paradoxical article on the freedom of the Internet in today’s Guardian.  His argument is that the capacity of people to adapt to censorship regimes … Continue reading →

Populisms

The Kadist Foundation in Paris is hosting what looks like a fascinating exhibition as part of Matteo Lucchetti’s Enacting Populism project.  Inspired by the likes of Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, and drawing on changes in the nature of politics … Continue reading →

Looking (back, into, and still) for Headless: a final reflection on Goldin+Senneby at ACCA

Reblogged from ACCA art blog:

Sophie Kitson (a fan)

It started off so innocently on the day the exhibition Power to the People: ContemporaryConceptualism and the Object in Art opened at ACCA. I looked at the teal wall in the back gallery, the series of documents laid under glass, numbered chapters that broke down and ordered some kind of narrative. Each element provided clues; convincing propositions linking a Bahamas-based company called Headless Ltd to philosopher Georges Bataille’s 1930s Parisian secret society Acephale (also meaning, ‘headless’).

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A very interesting response to Headless' manifestation in Melbourne. And I have no idea who this 'Dicko' is....

Paradoxical dollar

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I encountered this wonderful image on the Psychoeconomy! Blog, which explores all sorts of strange monetary activisms, alternatives and anomalies: I was particularly excited by it because I had been using the example of disrupted and represented money in a … Continue reading →