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After Work : A book about the meaning of Work
- 2022. - 1
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Economic stress under wage-earning has been abolished. Machines and AI have taken over dirty, heavy and tedious work. Money and social injustice are banned. All the technological resources of humanity can be used to reset the global economy to harmonize with ecology. Free citizens can spend their time in leisure practicing music, art, and poetry.Visions of the future are already here. But is it a utopia that we are seeing materializing around us or a dystopia? What will happen to people when nobody wants their labor? Does there already exist a firm border between those who have a job, with all that it entails in social and economic benefits, and the people that are on the other side of the fence- the people that have to sell their work by the hour, and who in practice are modern slaves under apps and SMS? A division between people who can safely work from home during a pandemic and those who cannot. Is everything for sale? Can you sell voluntary labour? These are some of the questions discussed in the art projects documented in this book.
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- Goldin, Simon
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Zero magic : Shifting the Valuation Convention
- 2016
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Zero Magic is a trick for the financial markets, which has the capacity to undermine the perceived value of a publicly traded company and profit from this. Short selling is a way of profiting from loss: Making money if and when a target company loses in value. It is a fundamental market activity that goes as far back as the first stock, yet to this day little is publicly known about the strategies employed by short sellers. On the US exchanges there is no requirement for hedge funds to disclose short positions, and in other jurisdictions such requirements are very limited. Zero Magic was developed by covertly infiltrating a secretive hedge fund specializing in short selling, and reverse engineering its methods. In brief, the hedge fund’s trading strategy is based on identifying suitable short selling targets through analyzing networks of corruption, and then framing critical newsworthy stories about these target companies that can be anonymously distributed among journalists. Profit is gained when a target company loses in value. Rigorous measures are taken by the fund never to be identified as the source of a negative campaign.Access to the hedge fund was gained through the art world. The founder and co-director routinely supports artists and art institutions and is said to have gotten the idea for his fund when looking at a Mark Lombardi drawing (an artist known for mapping networks of power and corruption). It is hard to tell whether the founder’s engagement with art merely entertains personal vanity, or if it functions more strategically as a means of “secret publicity” for the fund; giving access to investors, while staying under the radar of more mainstream public relations. Covert techniques such as hidden recordings and proxy researchers were used to uncover the fund’s methods. With the assistance of Théo Bourgeron, sociologist of finance, Zero Magic not only reconstructs the workings of the trading strategy, but offers a fully operational magic gimmick. The magic gimmick is a computer program providing non-expert users the means to identify relevant short selling targets (companies with weak “valuation conventions”), and a step-by-step guide to undermining their perceived value. With this gimmick one can execute a successful short sale without any previous contacts in the investor community or access to insider information. A US patent application for the trick was filed in January 2016.The artistic PhD “Zero Magic: Shifting the Valuation Convention” concludes with a stage performance and a magic box:The stage performance, “On a Long Enough Timeline the Survival Rate for Everyone Drops to Zero” with magician Malin Nilsson, performed on May 11 and 12, 2016, at Cirkus Cirkör, Stockholm. Through the ticket sales, audience members are drawn into the Zero Magic trick, buying into the predicted future loss of a target company. The magic box, prepared for public archives, contains the Zero Magic computer software, a US patent application for a “Computer Assisted Magic Trick Executed in the Financial Markets” and four historical examples of magic tricks played out beyond the stage, in the world at large.
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- Almborg, Emanuel
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Towards a Pedagogy of the Utopian Image
- 2021
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This practice-based PhD project investigates the conditions for a pedagogy of the utopian image in contemporary art and film. It starts from the premise that there is a need for new political and social visions and scenarios. The project asks what role art and artist film, both as a medium and as a social activity, can play in experimenting with and sketching such visions and scenarios – a process described as a pedagogy of the “utopian image”. Rather than starting from established concepts in contemporary art theory and practice, this project seeks out fertile notions and methodologies from theoretical traditions in Marxist history that are lesser known in the field of art and artistic research, in order to reassess assumptions and dichotomies around thinking and feeling, mind and body, the social and the individual. By doing so, it seeks to find new ways of understanding and relating the political and psychological in artist film, pedagogy and drama. The project draws on a wide range of sources, from psychologist Lev Vygotsky, Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov and theatre director Konstantin Stanislavski to revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon and science fiction writer Octavia Butler.The PhD submission consists of the three films, Talking Hands/Говорящие руки, 2016, The Nth Degree, 2018, and Acorn, 2021, along with the exhibition Bildningar at Mint in Stockholm, which ran from 2 to 25 September 2021. Links to these films and documentation of the exhibition are included in the PDF submission, which also includes a written component with theoretical considerations and reflections on method.
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- Andersson Broms, Åsa, et al.
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After Work
- 2019
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Economic stress under wage earning has been abolished. Machines and AI have taken over dirty, heavy and tedious work. Money and social injustice are banned. All the technological resources of humanity can be used to reset the global economy to harmonize with ecology. Free citizens can spend their time in leisure practicing, music, art, and poetry. Visions of the future are already here.But is it a utopia that we are seeing materializing around us or a dystopia? What will happen to people when nobody wants their labor? Does there already exist a firm border between those who have a job, with all that it entails of social and economic benefits, and the people that are on the other side of the fence- the people that have to sell their work by the hour, and who in practice are modern slaves under apps and SMS. Is everything for sale? Can you sell voluntary labour?During this exhibition, these issues are further developed through artworks by Work-a-work.
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- Andersson Broms, Åsa, et al.
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Artist Salary Now!
- 2018
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Should we spend our time filling out forms or making art? was the rhetorical question that acted as a starting point for “Konsnärslön nu!”, an event at Gallery Tegen2 in Stockholm in September 2018. Over a period of a month, a group of artists performed a think tank and a campaign headquarters as a means to provoke discussion. The exhibition also provided space for a series of semi-public talks where the question of a possible basic income for artists was further developed during the exhibition. The talks engaged activists from the universal basic income movement, politicians, researchers, and artists. In this report we describe the ideas behind the project and the discussions that evolved in the talks and interviews with artists. As a result of the project we propose an artist salary as a pilot for a future basic income, a salary that eventually will be for everyone (not only artists). A salary to allow for time to take care of our commons and existential issues. A modest salary based on the modest needs of artists. Unlike a universal basic income, it is intended for a specific purpose, our shared society. And, since we claim that society is an art, it is up to each one of us to define what society is.
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- Anoushirvani, Shiva
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Yaaddasht- Where the landscape of memory takes on : Memories of political events
- 2018
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- I utställningen Yaaddaasht – Där minnets landskap tar vid visar Shiva Anoushirvani verk från år 2013-2018. Verken behandlar relationen mellan personliga minnen och världshändelser, politik och makt. Hur formas individer av sociala strukturer och politiskaskeenden, och hur påverkar dessa hur vi förstår våra minnen och erfarenheter? När verken visas tillsammans framträder konstnärens undersökande blick på omvärlden med ett särskilt intresse för maktrelationer.
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- Benas, Gerdziunas
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Rojava: politics of space between revolution and war
- 2019
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- An unknown entity rose out of the war in Syria – Rojava. As the world’s attention fixated on the Kurds’ fight against ISIS, their revolution began to restructure society along democratic confederalist ideals. The built environment, therefore, had to follow suite.KKH research conducted in northern Syria examined the politics of space in society-building and revolution, and explored the rise and fall of the Commune, architecture’s role in state-building, as well as memory and destruction.The multimedia project is an intersection, both in the methodology and its outcomes, between journalism, architectural research, and storytelling.
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- Braide Eriksson, Astrid, 1993-
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The tongue is a little member, but boast of great things
- 2022
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- At the corner outside Handelsbanken’s headquarters, the sidewalk is broader than usual. It creates a square-like space, where public benches are installed facing the sightseeing boats leaving for the archipelago.With their backs to the display windows in Handelsbanken’s facade, the benches are crouched down, like a bent knee waiting for a sitter.The building makes up the edge of the site, like a stage set behind the people watching the scenic view. Television screens are installed in the bank’s windows, their glass sandblasted in a striped pattern that looks like a barcode. Inside, a twenty-first-century office is visible, with white laminate tabletops on aluminum legs. The screens silently project their light out on the pavement.This site is the point of departure for the work, along with a text called The Dialogue of the Exchequer, written approximately in 1180. In it, a master explains to his disciple how the economic system works by describing the tax court of the king.The scene with the Exchequer is set around a table covered with a chequered cloth. The officials sitting there each have a part to play in the drama. Their hands move objects over the surface, giving new meaning to the counters depending on their placement. The text repeatedly warns that the person explaining this system could easily retreat into a cryptic language, sealing of any possibility of understanding.An etching from ca. 1490 of the Exchequer serves as the model for the animation The tongue is a little member, but boast of great things.The Dialogue of the Exchequer is used as the script, reworked and chopped up.It is a pleasure to play the fool.
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