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 #7: Kate Rich and Radical Administration
Institute of Network Cultures
35 minutes 43 seconds
9 months ago
Art in Permacrisis #7: Kate Rich and Radical Administration
Kate Rich is an artist, trader, and researcher based in the UK. We discussed 'feral trade', a grocery business set up by Kate, for which her internationally traveling (art world) friends and acquaintances act as couriers. We then talked about 'radmin', a long-term effort to radicalize the administrative work that's always there, but usually remains in the background, even in social art practices.
Art in Permacrisis is a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises, hosted by Sepp Eckenhaussen. This episode was recorded in Brussels, in a studio generously offered by Rune Peitersen and Level Five Cooperative.
Link list
Feral Trade website: https://feraltrade.org
Interview with Kate on Feral Trade in Wired from 2013: https://www.wired.com/2013/07/whats-new-with-kate-rich-and-feral-trade
Katherine Gibson and Kate Rich, 'Feral Trade: Taking back Markets for People and the Planet', Unlikely, no. 1, https://unlikely.net.au/issue-1/feral-trade
Introduction to feral trade from 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyvofILBKKs&ab_channel=AVFestival
Radmin Reader 2020: https://fo.am/publications/radmin-reader-2020
Article by FoAM-founders Maja Kuzmanović & Nik Gaffney on the aims of the organisation: https://www.designdecode.org/maja-kuzmanovic-nik-gaffney
Article by Kate Rich, Maja Kuzmanović, and Nik Gaffney from 2023 discussing the Institute for Experiments with Business (IBEX): https://anarchive.fo.am/crystal/grey-skies-thinking
The 2024-2027 project Frictions: https://www.alpinecommunityeconomies.org/2024/10/01/welcome-to-dr-kate-rich-our-first-marie-sklodowska-curie-postdoctoral-fellow
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
