Art/commons: anthropology beyond capitalism

by Mollona, Massimiliano

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Full title :Art/commons : anthropology beyond capitalism / Massimiliano Mollona.

Summary

Can art provide a critique of political economy? This question, originally formulated by the romantic philosophers John Ruskin and William Morris, continues to be at the core of contemporary anti-capitalist and post-colonial struggles. As art and culture feed an urban rentierism based on gentrification, mass-tourism and hyper-consumption, art commons are radicalizing urban politics across the globe through new political and artistic practices. 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. Massimiliano Mollona's 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. Art/Commons gives stimulating first-person accounts of five projects the author conducted at the intersection of art, activism and pedagogy, ranging from participatory film projects in Brazil, Norway and the UK to his directorship of the Athens Biennale. 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Zed Books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 199 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781786996985, 1786996987, 9781786996992, 1786996995
oclc:on1242776222
LC Classification:N72.A56
Dewey Decimal:701/.03

Part I. Towards an Anthropological Theory of Art/Commons. Prologue -- Part II. (Auto)ethnography of Common Practices. 1. Beyond the Cinematic Mode of Production: Film Labour, Manual Labour and Intellectual Labour in the Making of 'Steel Lives', Sheffield ; 2. Beyond Institutional Critique: Instituting Otherwise with Athens Biennale ; 3. Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) -- Epilogue.