Autonomous Art Institutions

Artists Disrupting the Creative City

AvAlberto Cossu

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Alberto Cossu's ethnographic research on the MACAO centre in Italy radiates out to questions about what it means to be a modern artist, and how much autonomy is left to the artist in a globalized and politicised world. Autonomous Art Institutions provides a unique perspective on the political engagement of artists in order to investigate the reconfiguration of contemporary art practices as they dissolve in social and economic processes. The book provides insight into the making of a radical art institution across seven years of activity, showing how social, cultural and economic elements are appropriated and repurposed by artists in the process. Based on years of sociological research as well as direct involvement of the author in the artistic practices, the book illuminates the spark of society-to-come by examining the doings of artists as they attempt to disrupt the ‘creative city.’

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-05-31
Mått:112 x 160 x 18 mm
Vikt:413 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:150
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786616029

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Alberto Cossu is Assistant Professor in media and communication within the School of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is a sociologist, researching the intersection between digital media and activism, qualitative and digital methods, collaborative and digital economies.

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In his breakthrough study of autonomous cultural institutions, Alberto Cossu tells us that artists are operating at the frontlines of transformative political mobilization, and yet with his uniquely engaged approach to urban research it is Cossu himself who joins the frontline as a new type of socially active ethnographer. Cossu’s investigation into contemporary forms of bottom-up community organizing will prove to be a requisite reference for transformative artists, scholars, theorists and activists in the foreseeable future.

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTION: From Reaction to Autonomy: Protesting, Resisting and Creating Institutions1. Framing Art & Political Mobilisation2. Revealing the Backstage of an Ethnographic Study of Artists3. Art's Own Activism4. Organising for Being an Institution5. Producing Culture in the Neoliberal CityCONCLUSION: Doing the unthinkable: Becoming Institutions