Art/Commons - Anthropology beyond Capitalism

Art/Commons is the first book to theorise the commons from the perspectives of contemporary art history and anthropology, focusing on the ongoing tensions between art and capitalism. This study is grounded in an analysis of contemporary artistic and curatorial practices, which the author describes as practices of commoning, based on co-production, participation, mutualism and the valorization of reproductive labour. Mollona proposes a novel theoretical approach to current debates on the commons, and shows that art can provide both a language of anti-capitalist and post-colonial critique as well as a distinctive set of skills and practices of commoning.>

Sommario

Introduction
Part I: Anthropology, Art and Political Economy
1. The Allure of Abstraction
2. Labour, Art and Slavery
3. Art and Commoning: A Short History
Part II: Projects
4. Participatory Films
5. Curatorial Projects
6. Institute of Radical Imagination
Conclusion

Info autore

Massimiliano Mollona is a writer, filmmaker and anthropologist with a multidisciplinary background in economics and anthropology. Mollona has been the director of the Athens Biennale (2015-17), one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly (2017); co-founder of the Laboratory for the Urban Commons (LUC) based in Athens and the initiator of the ongoing project Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Massimiliano Mollona, Massimiliano (Goldsmiths Mollona, Mollona Massimiliano
• Editore: Zed Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786996992
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-699-2
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 214 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: In Common
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; World, Cultural Studies, Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Anthropology, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Art & Politics, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, History of Art, Political Economy, For higher / tertiary / university education, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents