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 #4: Yazan Khalili and the Crisis Economy
Institute of Network Cultures
1 hour 36 minutes 51 seconds
1 year ago
Art in Permacrisis #4: Yazan Khalili and the Crisis Economy
This is the fourth 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.
In this episode, we talk to Yazan Khalili. Yazan is an artist, architect, and cultural activist living in and out of Palestine. Some of Yazan's many roles are: PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, co-founder of Radio Alhara (since 2020), and co-founder of The Question of Funding-collective (since 2019). Our conversation focuses on crisis and the crisis economy as a defining force in the arts. We also discuss the practice of infrastructural critique, or how to build alternative art institutions from the bottom up. And, of course, we talk about Palestine.
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.
We would also like to note that the Shadia Abu Ghazaleh Campus of the People's Free University in Amsterdam was unfortunately evicted from their building on June 13th. To keep up with their actions, you can follow @peoples.university.amsterdam on Instagram.
Links:
Yazan's website: https://www.yazankhalili.com/
The Question of Funding: https://documenta-fifteen.de/en/lumbung-members-artists/the-question-of-funding/
What we talk about when we talk about crisis: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/111/346846/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-crisis-a-conversation-part-1/
Radio Alhara: radioalhara.net
Radio Alhara Linktree: https://linktr.ee/radioalhara
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
