PUBLISHER
Open Editions/Hordaland Art Centre

BOOK FORMAT
Flexi, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 168 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2013
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 152

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780949004178 TRADE
List Price: $26.00 CDN $36.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

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Self-Organised

Edited by Stine Herbert, Anne Szefer Karlsen. Text by Julie Ault, Maibritt Borgen, Céline Condorelli & Johan Frederik Hartle, Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen, Charles Esche, Barnaby Drabble, et al.

The current economic situation and society’s low confidence in its institutions demands that artists become more imaginative in their self-organization. If labels such as ‘alternative,’ ‘non-profit’ and ‘artist-run’ dominated the self-organized art scene of the late nineties, the separatist position implied by the use of these terms has been moderated during the intervening years. This new anthology of accounts from the frontline includes contributions by artist practitioners as well as their institutional counterparts providing a fascinating account of the art world as a matrix of positions where the balance of power and productivity constantly shifts. Artists, curators and critics discuss empirical and theoretical approaches from Europe, Africa and South and North America on how self-organization today oscillates between the self and the group, self-imposed bureaucratization and flexibility, aestheticization and activism.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Art Monthly

Andrew Hunt

Overall, 'Self-Organised' presents an intelligently diverse breadth of critical reflections, self-conscious institutional polarities and overlaps, and new self-organised ways forward.