Commonism: A New Aesthetics of the Real
Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen
After half a century of neoliberalism, a new radical, practice-based ideology is making its way from the margins: commonism, with an o in the middle. It is based on the values of sharing, common (intellectual) ownership and new social co-operations. Commoners assert that social relationships can replace money (contract) relationships. They advocate solidarity and they trust in peer-to-peer relationships to develop new ways of production. This book explores this new political belief system, alternating between theoretical analysis, wild artistic speculation, inspiring art examples, almost empirical observations and critical reflection.
ISBN: 9789492095718
Publisher: Valiz
Price: 24,00€
When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
Nele Wynants (ed.)
What is the value of fiction at a time when fake news, alternative facts, and infotainment undermine the integrity of politics and media? This question is the common thread of When Fact Is Fiction. It brings together contributions by and about artists who probe the boundaries between fact and fiction. The artists discussed in this volume deliberately blur the boundaries between what is generally known as ‘fiction’ and as ‘reality’. They share a fascination with the same problem: the impossible challenge of representing reality. Their artistic re-interpretation of oral and archival sources often has an explicit critical potential to rewrite history, rethink our present time or imagine possible futures.
ISBN: 9789492095718
Publisher: Valiz
Price: 25,00€
Contemporary Artist Residencies: Reclaiming Time and Space
Taru Elfving, Irmeli Kokko, Pascal Gielen (eds.)
Residencies are crucial nodes in international circulation and career development, but also invaluable infrastructures for critical thinking and artistic experimentation, cross-cultural collaboration and site-specific research. The globalization process and the demands of the creative economy have had an impact on artist residencies. Ecological and geopolitical urgencies are now also affecting them more and more. With a range of critical insights from the field of residencies, this book asks what the present role of artist residencies is in relation to artists and the art ecosystem amid transformations in society.
ISBN: 9789492095466
Publisher: Valiz
Price: 25,00€
The Art of Civil Action: Political Space and Cultural Dissent
Philipp Dietachmair & Pascal Gielen (eds.)
The arts can play a key role in addressing public and political problems, with their ability to project alternative realities and communicate ideas. Looking at different artistic platforms, activist groups and new forms of citizen initiatives, this book asks how cultural and art initiatives can question and strengthen the civil domain? Social scientists, cultural theorists, activists and artists explore how arts and culture can offer the building blocks for a locally rooted civil society in a globally connected context.
ISBN: 9789492095398
Publisher: Valiz
Price: 23,00€
