Justin O'Connor is a Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia. In this episode, we talk about his new book, 'Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good'. Justin explains how theoretically poor the concept of the 'creative industry' actually is, and how it has messed up cultural policy in many countries. We then talk about an alternative policy vision: art and culture as a common good, anchored in the foundational economy.
Links:
Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171269
The Foundational Economy Collective: foundationaleconomy.com
Reset: Een nieuw begin voor kunst en cultuur: starfishbooks.org/justin-oconnor-reset
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Justin O'Connor is a Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia. In this episode, we talk about his new book, 'Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good'. Justin explains how theoretically poor the concept of the 'creative industry' actually is, and how it has messed up cultural policy in many countries. We then talk about an alternative policy vision: art and culture as a common good, anchored in the foundational economy.
Links:
Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171269
The Foundational Economy Collective: foundationaleconomy.com
Reset: Een nieuw begin voor kunst en cultuur: starfishbooks.org/justin-oconnor-reset
Art in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Art for UBI
Institute of Network Cultures
1 hour 24 minutes 45 seconds
1 year ago
Art in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Art for UBI
This is the second episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, the curriculum of art and design academies, the exhibition programs of museums, and the organization of collectives and unions? We invite speakers with combined backgrounds in art, theory, and organizing to share their insights.
For this episode, we talk to Emanuele Braga. Emanuele is an artist, researcher, and activist. Over the past decades, he has been involved in many important grassroots initiatives, including MACAO, a center for art and culture in Milan, and the Institute of Radical Imagination. This conversation focuses mostly on Art for Universal Basic Income (manifesto), which was produced by the Institute of Radical Imagination in 2022, and which was co-edited by Emanuele, together with Marco Baravalle and Gabriella Riccio.
Art in Permacrisis is a podcast of the Institute of Network Cultures and Caradt. It is hosted by Candela Cubria and Sepp Eckenhaussen. Tech by Tommaso Campagna. Editing by Giulia Timis.
Link list:
Art for UBI https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/art-for-ubi-manifesto
Art for UBI petition https://www.change.org/p/european-commission-art-for-ubi-manifesto
Institute of radical imagination https://instituteofradicalimagination.org/
MACAO https://www.macaomilano.it/spip.php?article166
Museum of the Commons: https://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/museum/support-the-museum/linternationale
Gathering into the Maelstrom (part of Venice Biennale): https://instituteofradicalimagination.org/2024/02/15/gathering-into-the-maesltrom-platform-action-exhibition/
Institute of Network Cultures
Justin O'Connor is a Professor of Cultural Economy at the University of South Australia. In this episode, we talk about his new book, 'Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good'. Justin explains how theoretically poor the concept of the 'creative industry' actually is, and how it has messed up cultural policy in many countries. We then talk about an alternative policy vision: art and culture as a common good, anchored in the foundational economy.
Links:
Culture Is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171269
The Foundational Economy Collective: foundationaleconomy.com
Reset: Een nieuw begin voor kunst en cultuur: starfishbooks.org/justin-oconnor-reset
