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From my abstract: Scholars, artists and curators have since the 1990’s claimed that art produces knowledge. This claim is still intensely debated (Sarat Maharaj, Irit Rogoff and Simon Sheikh), however, few contributions concern the global character of knowledge production and the political strategies of its art practices. Thus, how knowledge is produced in today’s global art scene needs more scrutiny, especially with regards to artworks and institutional frameworks. The presentation starts with a brief clarification of the terminology of knowledge production from its development in economics (Friedrich Hayek, Fritz Machlup and Michael Gibbons) and its way into art. I show how art theorists define the term in opposition to neo-liberal ideas and then go on to identify global art practices of the field. To methodologically grasp these practices I use George Marcus’ strategy of ‘multi-sited ethnography’ in combination with aesthetic analysis. Thus, I finalise by focusing on an ethnographic fieldwork-in-progress on the regional exhibition event Home Works (since 2002) in Beirut, Lebanon. Following up on Nikos Papastergiadis’ Cosmopolitanism and Culture questions for discussion arise: How does Home Works move between the global and the local? What knowledge does the art it presents offer? Does Home Works express an aesthetic cosmopolitanism and, if yes, how? References: -Gibbons, Michael. The new production of knowledge, the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. London: Sage Publications, 1994 -Hayek, Friedrich. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” American Economic Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 4. p. 519-30 -Machlup, Fritz. The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1962 -Maharaj, Sarat. “Unfinishable Sketch of ‘an unknown Object in 4 D’: Scenes of artistic Research. L&B. Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory. Vol. 18, 2004. p. 39-58 -Marcus, George. “Ethnography in/of the World System: the Emergence of Multi-sited Ethnography.” Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 24, p. 95-117 -Papastergiadis, Nikos. Cosmpolitanism and Culture. Cambridge/Malden: Polity Press, 2012 -Rogoff, Irit. “What is a Theorist?” in On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art. Choi, Binna, Hlavaiova, Maria andWinder, Jill (Eds.). Frankfurt/Utrecht: BAK, basis coor actuele kunst and Revolver, 2008| Period | 4 Dec 2012 |
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| Location | København, DenmarkShow on map |