Hi all,
It's rare that you'll see any posts from me on this list. However, I thought,
perhaps some of you may be interested in the subject of 'Proprietorial
Systems', and my take on it. As some of you may know, I've been working with
Furtherfield for over 20 years now. The context of the paper reflects a small
example of my autoethnographical PhD, at Birkbeck, London. I am now in my write
up period, and will be spending the next 6 months in it until it's all finished.
Wishing you well.
marc
Unlocking Proprietorial Systems for Artistic Practice | By Marc Garrett.
"Proprietorial domination is the presumption of ownership not only over our
psychic states of existence but also through the material objects we possess
and use daily, and this extends into and through our use of digital networks
every day."
http://www.aprja.net/unlocking-proprietorial-systems-for-artistic-practice/
Introduction
The cultural, political and economic systems in place do not work for most
people. They support a privileged, international class that grows richer while
imposing increasing uncertainty on others, producing endless wars, and
enhancing the conditions of inequality, austerity, debt, and climate change, to
own everything under the rule of neoliberalism. David Harvey argues that the
permeation of neoliberalism exists within every aspect of our lives, and it has
been masked by a repeated rhetoric around “individual freedom, liberty,
personal responsibility and the virtues of privatization, the free market and
free trade”. (Harvey 11) Thus; legitimizing the continuation of and repeating
of policies that consolidate capitalistic powers. Pierre Dardot and Christian
Laval in Manufacturing the Neoliberal Subject, say we have not yet emerged from
“the ‘iron cage’ of the capitalist economy […] everyone is enjoined to
construct their own individual little ‘iron cage’.” (Dardot and Laval 263)
If we are, as Dardot & Laval put it co-designing our own iron cages, how do we
find ways to be less dominated by these overpowering infrastructures and
systems? How do we build fresh, independent places, spaces and identities, in
relation to our P2P, artistic and cultural practices, individually and or
collectively – when, our narratives are dominated by elite groups typically
biased towards isolating and crushing alternatives? Does this mean that
critical thought, aligned with artistic and experimental cultural ventures,
along with creatively led technological practices, are all doomed to perpetuate
a state of submission within a proprietorial absolute?
To unpack the above questions we look at different types of proprietorial
systems, some locked and unlocked, and consider their influence on creative
forms of production across the fields of the traditional art world, and media
art culture. We look at how artists are dealing with these issues through their
artistic agency: individually, collaboratively, or as part of a group or
collective. This includes looking at the intentions behind the works: their
production and cultural and societal contexts, where different sets of values
and new possibilities are emerging, across the practice of art, academia, and
technology, and thus, the world.
Part of RESEARCH VALUES | A Peer-Reviewed Journal About Research Values |
VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, 2018 | Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox -
http://www.aprja.net/research-values/
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.
Art, technology and social change, since 1996
http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park
Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQhttp://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London
https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett
Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain
Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner
Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
Latest post: Unlocking Proprietorial Art Systems interview:
with Artists, Gretta Louw, Antonio Roberts & Annie Abrahams
https://bit.ly/2HQM1bs
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