Artists as Producers
<p>Based on Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay “The Author as Producer,” an array of theorists have developed approaches towards an aesthetics of production. The texts of this issue investigate how Benjamin’s arguments may serve as a ground for reflecting and theorizing current art practices. What are the consequences of political art’s function of “supplying the capitalist production apparatus, not changing it”? How can artistic methods subvert cooptation following Brecht and Tretyakov? Where are there new models of artists/intellectuals as producers and “specialists” rather than experts for the universal?</p>
Contributors: Simon Sheikh, Ivana Momcilovic, Gerald Raunig, Maria Lind, Friedrich Tietjen, Bojana Cvejic, Michaela Pöschl, LIGNA, Boris Buden, Christian Kravagna, Christina Nemec, Rosa Reitsamer, Ulf Wuggenig
Subject: Walter Benjamin
European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies
Part of: republicart