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with the canvas of everyday life.” The participants in the summit provide “a glimpse into an evolving community concerned with the political implications of socially engaged art.”6
Author and scholar Julia Bryan-Wilson referenced recent economic and environmental crises, both of which were entangled with corporate economic forces. She cited the violation of Texan legal limits on the emission of air contaminants Panelists were organized in thematic sections including “Alternative Economies”, “Food”, “Institutions”, “Market” and “Plausible Art Worlds”. A common thread that ran through the presentations was the overarching topic of economics and sustainability. The notion of alternative and self-organized sustainable economies was of general concern and interest throughout the summit.
7 by oil company British Petroleum (BP), the 2005 explosion of the BP Texas City refinery and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.8
6 Ibid After she identified Houston, Texas as having the fifth worst air quality in the world due to the over 5000 energy related industries located in the area, Bryan-Wilson introduced the section of the summit on the topic of the “Market”. She used the metaphor of air to say, “…talking about the market…is like talking about air. We coexist inside it, it both enables and limits our activities and often it eludes our precise investigation. You could say that market economies are the oxygen we
7 Julia Bryan Wilson, "Markets" (Keynote Presentation, Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice, Cooper Union Great Hall, New York City, October 9, 2010), accessed February 07, 2011, http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/summit/WP/2010/10/10/julia-bryan-wilson/.
8 On April 20, 2010, there was a deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that flowed for 3 months. The BP oil company was held responsible. The spill caused damage to workers, marine and land wildlife, and the fishing and tourism industries. Damaging impacts continue to impact the economy and environment of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding areas.
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| Title | Mejor vida/better life and day-to-day exchanges: Networks of social exchange in contemporary arts practice |
| Author | Anderson, Joy Angela |
| Author email | joy.anderson@usc.edu; majikalnature@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Public Art Studies |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-08 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-06 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Decter, Joshua |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Owen Driggs, Janet Gonzalez, Rita |
| Abstract | The current economic crisis has brought attention and criticism to a dominant global economic system that is characterized by the goal of exponential expansion in pursuit of private monetary profit. In this thesis I explore the possibility for social and participatory art to invoke, inspire and mobilize action towards alternative sustainable systems of economic exchange. Generosity and non-monetary exchange as a social practice and artistic strategy provide a space for artists and audiences to perform models of alternative economies in the social/public sphere. While they also cultivate a network of social and cultural capital that values shared time and resources for mutual benefit. Using tactics evocative of feminist artists of the 1970s, the art projects considered in this text experiment with ways to live independent of, and in resistance to, the corporate market. My discussion focuses on the socially engaged art projects of artists Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo, and the Time/Bank initiated by artists Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda of e-flux. I reveal how their art projects perform creative models towards an economic paradigm shift, while positioning social and participatory public art practice as models towards sustainable lifestyles. |
| Keyword | social practice; generosity and non-monetary exchange in contemporary art; non-object art; Latin American artists; Mexican artists; Interventionist art; public art; public practice; feminist art; participatory art; alternative economies; barter; time bank; time currency; environmental sustainable lifestyles; economic sustainability; global corporate capitalism; global economic paradigm; art activism; paradigm shift; environmental and social justice; temporary autonomous zone; relational aesthetics; social capital; conceptualism; DIY; globalization; gift economies |
| Coverage date | 1970/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3921 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Anderson, Joy Angela |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-anderson-4448 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-anderson-4448.pdf |
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| Title | Page 8 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 2 with the canvas of everyday life.” The participants in the summit provide “a glimpse into an evolving community concerned with the political implications of socially engaged art.”6 Author and scholar Julia Bryan-Wilson referenced recent economic and environmental crises, both of which were entangled with corporate economic forces. She cited the violation of Texan legal limits on the emission of air contaminants Panelists were organized in thematic sections including “Alternative Economies”, “Food”, “Institutions”, “Market” and “Plausible Art Worlds”. A common thread that ran through the presentations was the overarching topic of economics and sustainability. The notion of alternative and self-organized sustainable economies was of general concern and interest throughout the summit. 7 by oil company British Petroleum (BP), the 2005 explosion of the BP Texas City refinery and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.8 6 Ibid After she identified Houston, Texas as having the fifth worst air quality in the world due to the over 5000 energy related industries located in the area, Bryan-Wilson introduced the section of the summit on the topic of the “Market”. She used the metaphor of air to say, “…talking about the market…is like talking about air. We coexist inside it, it both enables and limits our activities and often it eludes our precise investigation. You could say that market economies are the oxygen we 7 Julia Bryan Wilson, "Markets" (Keynote Presentation, Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice, Cooper Union Great Hall, New York City, October 9, 2010), accessed February 07, 2011, http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2010/summit/WP/2010/10/10/julia-bryan-wilson/. 8 On April 20, 2010, there was a deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that flowed for 3 months. The BP oil company was held responsible. The spill caused damage to workers, marine and land wildlife, and the fishing and tourism industries. Damaging impacts continue to impact the economy and environment of the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding areas. |
