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their specific missions. e-flux and Time/Bank do not outline a specific mission other than the commitment to continue to experiment with ways of exchange in the realm of arts and culture. Projects are funded through the monetary capital that is gained from e-flux’s clients.
Perhaps the strength of e-flux is its openness to experiment, explore and evolve without being limited or confined to a specific institutional mission. Nonetheless, it is the monetary aspect of e-flux, the digital and discursive space within which art institutions pay to have a presence, affords Vidokle and his associates the opportunity to experiment with artistic projects and self-sustainability. Vidokle considers that e-flux is an extension of his artistic practice and also a business, which depends on the market for is monetary success. Vidokle, aware of the paradoxical position, shared in a conversation with Ulrich Obrist;
I think for e-flux, the idea of liberating space and time consists of not being at all concerned with exhibitions, but entirely occupied by other types of activity… This is possible in part because our economy allows this…from the start independence was a key goal. I really don’t think it’s feasible to think of alternative practices or organizations without rethinking their economic links and dependencies on the existing system.105
The need for monetary capital cannot be ignored. In fact, survival in a capitalist society depends on acquiring money. What the e-flux Time/Bank points out is that cultural and social capital are also valuable. e-flux, being financially self-sustaining, is able to provide a participatory space for experimentation with social non-monetary
105 Ever.Ever.Ever.- Shows/ e-flux, Accessed February 25, 2011. July 2006 http://www.eflux.com/files/Hans_Ulrich_Obrist_Interview.pdf
Object Description
| 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 62 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 56 their specific missions. e-flux and Time/Bank do not outline a specific mission other than the commitment to continue to experiment with ways of exchange in the realm of arts and culture. Projects are funded through the monetary capital that is gained from e-flux’s clients. Perhaps the strength of e-flux is its openness to experiment, explore and evolve without being limited or confined to a specific institutional mission. Nonetheless, it is the monetary aspect of e-flux, the digital and discursive space within which art institutions pay to have a presence, affords Vidokle and his associates the opportunity to experiment with artistic projects and self-sustainability. Vidokle considers that e-flux is an extension of his artistic practice and also a business, which depends on the market for is monetary success. Vidokle, aware of the paradoxical position, shared in a conversation with Ulrich Obrist; I think for e-flux, the idea of liberating space and time consists of not being at all concerned with exhibitions, but entirely occupied by other types of activity… This is possible in part because our economy allows this…from the start independence was a key goal. I really don’t think it’s feasible to think of alternative practices or organizations without rethinking their economic links and dependencies on the existing system.105 The need for monetary capital cannot be ignored. In fact, survival in a capitalist society depends on acquiring money. What the e-flux Time/Bank points out is that cultural and social capital are also valuable. e-flux, being financially self-sustaining, is able to provide a participatory space for experimentation with social non-monetary 105 Ever.Ever.Ever.- Shows/ e-flux, Accessed February 25, 2011. July 2006 http://www.eflux.com/files/Hans_Ulrich_Obrist_Interview.pdf |
