Dear Ralph Kerle!

There is a whole stream of that, but it takes place within the art/art
critique. This classic problem to trandisciplinary thinking - as dull and
simple as that sounds - is again bigger than expected.

Ken Friedman said Beuys lately, in my first short mail I mentioned the
Artist Placement Group, beeing the first to target the question precisely.
You could go from there. Or there is the group General Idea which also
worked theoretically a lot, and an interesting example of the younger past
might be Atelier von Lishout, the Dutch group. I would also look into art /
activist directions, RTmark, or Adbusters, there is loads of it. With that
goes a long stream of theory, beeing 90% involved in left wing, post -
marxist theory. There are a lot of interesting things, but it gets also very
quick repetetive mand ideologic. That's a bit the problem: The artist really
interested in this issue are left or radical left, most of the others don't
care about it, they care just about art. Core problem. So read Mile Plateau
(Deleuze/Guattari) and more recently Empire (Hardt/Negri) those are bibles
of economic thinking in the arts(theory).

You have all the booklists I think, but concerning artists view, Alexandra
Mir's 'Corporate Mentality' gives a good overview.

And of course a bit self - canvasing again: Produkt & Vision, the project I
mentioned briefly, was - as all my practice in the field - made for that
reason, to have the art side initiating and configuring the encounter, and
give the artist position the point of speech back. The whole project I sould
regard as an art based statement. The reader containes a couple of texts by
artists, along with theorists from arts and management/organisationa
studies. You can see them besides each other, and compare the language and
position of speech. Www.produktundvision.com.



I am very curious to ask: What of all that did you come across so far, of
whom from the art field do you know? Just as professional curiosity, to see
what actually has made it across the border. We could do that direcly, does
not have to be through Aacorn.


Best!
Henrik


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