Please come to the final session of the
Seminar in Visual Culture: Money Money Money
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Room ST 275
(School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1B 5DN London)
Wednesday 24 June, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Robin Priestley, The Space Hijackers (art presentation)
Dr. Gavin Grindon (Kingston University), "Art-Activism, Anticapitalism and Value - from the Situationist International to now"
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This seminar proposes to present and examine forms of art-activism which exist outside of the institutional bounds of the world of the art market, and which oppose themselves not only to this world, but to the world of market exchange more generally, and instead attempt to develop other values in the space of the everyday.
Robin of the Space Hijackers will present the work of his group and of others internationally, as activity which rejects art as a sphere separate from everyday life and attempts to dissolve artistic practices into the practices of social movements which contest the shaping of everyday life by the capitalist market.
Gavin Grindon will attempt to present a theoretical account of these activities, drawing on their theoretical lineage from the Situationist International onwards. He will argue that in developing through autonomous social movements since the 1970s, they attempt to transcend the theoretical problematics of the Situationist International in micropolitical terms, by attempting to develop other values against the extraction of surplus value from our everyday life-activity by a socialised form of capitalism.
The Seminar in Visual Culture aims to create a forum for practicing artists, researchers, curators, students, and others interested in visual culture to present, discuss and explore the various aspects of a given theme within the field. In 2009, to keep apace with the present credit-crunching times, the theme is Money.
While the media are providing us with endless analyses of the credit crisis from all imaginable economic angles, it is now perhaps time to look at how artists and writers are responding to Nasdaq and FTSE100, to shiny coins and colourful banknotes and to the repetitive images of worried brokers shouting into their mobile phones. After all, money is itself an object of design and has long been the subject of the creative arts and the credit crunch has not only inspired economists and journalists.
The seminar looks at the relationship between art, money and the everyday - in times of crisis and of affluence. Sessions include theoretical papers, art presentations of new and existing work as well as film screenings.
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Programme:
Thursday 29 Jan, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Dr. Yair Wallach, "Money becomes Text: Gold and Paper in Palestine"
Rebecca Ross (Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), "Doing Visual Culture: Currency and Graphic Design"
Thursday 26 Feb, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Samuel Thomson, "Artist Futures" (film presentation)
Jon Purnell, Cack-U-Like (art presentation)
Wednesday 25 Mar, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Marina Vishmidt, "Speculation as Mode of Production: Art, Money and the Formalism of Value"
Carolyn Kay, "Economics and Gaming" (art presentation)
Tessa Garland, Consumerism and Art (art presentation)
Thursday 28 May, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Dr. Diane Gabrysiak (Birkbeck College), "Let's Make Money - Representing money on film"
Morgan Adamson (University of Minnesota), "Inflation and the Image: Film, Financial Crisis, and the End of the Gold Standard"
Wednesday 24 June, 6.30 - 8.00pm
Dr. Gavin Grindon (Kingston University), "Art-Activism, Anticapitalism and Value - from the Situationist International to now"
Robin Priestley, The Space Hijackers (art presentation)
Dr Ricarda Vidal
Lecturer in Visual Culture
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
School of Advanced Study
Stewart House, 32 Russell Squ, London WC1B 5DN
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