Labor, Culture, Production: Nonprofits vs. Utopias

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Date/Time
Date(s) - Thursday, 07/25/2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Klinger Studios

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Labor, Culture, Production is a four week course/discussion that explores the nexus of labor, culture, and politics; We’ll look at: labor and exploitation in the arts, erasure and displacement caused by the non-profit industrial complex, the progressive facade of contemporary art institutions, and poetry and resistance.

 

Week one (Thursday July 11, 7-9PM Klinger Studios): Labor?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/08/women-gender-roles-sexism-emotional-labor-feminism

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/intelligence-squared-is-art-for-pleasure-or-politics/index.html

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artists-unionize

http://www.artandwork.us/2009/11/organize-what-the-artists-union-of-the-1930s-can-teach-us-today/

 

Week two (Thursday July 18, 7-9PM Klinger Studios): Radical Aesthetics and/against Representation.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/79/94433/material-matters-black-radical-aesthetics-and-the-limits-of-visibility/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU2FWrxiGcI (cw: police brutality, racism, violence)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkNr3VSGQ3w
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/reina-gossett-marsha-p-johnson-op-ed

 

Week three (Thursday July 25, 7-9PM Klinger Studios): Nonprofits vs Utopias
https://www.wired.com/story/the-paradox-of-universal-basic-income/
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4295-kanders-must-go-an-open-letter-from-theorists-critics-and-scholars-updated-list-of-signatories

http://www.artnews.com/2019/03/22/whitney-museum-warren-kanders-controversy-timeline/

https://www.hamtramckfreeschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/King-Osayande-The-filth-on-Philanthropy.pdf

 

Week four (Thursday August 1, 7-9PM Klinger Studios: Poetry in and against Politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9OpJYck7Y