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Episode 7 – Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War
Art is being used to fund and perpetuate war. The stateless wealthy use the art market as a tool to extend and maintain the class divide. Learn all about it in this mostly serious and depressing episode. My cat lightens the mood at one point. I wonder if the next 20 episodes of the show will just be us discussing a different Hito Steyerl essay every week.
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A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/70/60543/a-tank-on-a-pedestal-museums-in-an-age-of-planetary-civil-war/
The Gray Market: https://news.artnet.com/market/art-agency-partners-gallery-advisory-1318400
DISPATCH – Welcome to Art and Labor!
We had a tweet go viral! Artnet published a pseudoscience garbage article claiming that artists’ brain chemistry causes them to not what to be paid for their work, we told them to fuck off with that noise. This episode breakdown the discourse, and get into plenty of tangents along the way!! This episode was recorded on the streets of Chelsea and Bushwick. Later doodle-bitches!
Welcome new listeners! Art and Labor focuses on the on-going struggle to survive as an art or cultural worker. We chronicle the stories of social justice organizing within the arts, and believe in centering the human cost of the “art world” and advocate for fair labor practices for artists, assistants, fabricators, docents, interns, registrars, janitors, writers, editors, curators, guards, performers, and anyone doing work for art & cultural institutions.
Helpful links that provide context for this episode:
the viral tweet/article: https://twitter.com/ArtandLaborPod/status/1016154656265965568
more responses: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1016323997443780609
follow Nicky Flowers: https://twitter.com/yiffpolice
clothes are complicated: https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/mimi-thi-nguyen-fashion-design-01-clothing-and-politics-the-appearance-of-the-public-body
visit this show this summer: http://www.c24gallery.com/exhibitions-detail/from-the-cradle-to-the-boat-curated-by-tommy-hartung
Episode 6 – A Drunken Intro to Hito Steyerl
HITO STEYERL DANK MEME STASH! Hey ya’ll, we’ve got some FEELINGS this episode. Half this episode is venting about some strange/shitty art world jobs we’ve had. We also mention decolonization practice, Walter Benjamin, cultural Marxism, and Imperfect Cinema as a foundation for Steyerl’s In Defense of Poor Image. Accessibility is the key word of this ep. It’s extremely hot in New York City! It’s punishingly hard to focus. We drank a couple cold ones and left the AC on so this is a long ep with a little rumbling sound in the background. I’m not going to apologize, we needed that AC to pod.
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In Defense of Poor Image https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dreamed-dream-politics-age-mass-art-production/
How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651
For an imperfect cinema by Julio García Espinosa https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html
Follow them: http://www.decolonizethisplace.org/
Ron Paul is a shithead https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ron-paul-blames-racist-tweet-on-staffer_us_5b3ada27e4b07b827cba060b
Fuck this stork https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/29/world/europe/ap-eu-poland-spendthrift-stork.html
I found this randomly while looking for images, I wanna read it: http://reallifemag.com/poor-meme-rich-meme/
Episode 5 – Anarchy in Berlin and Pride Month
*UPDATE* ICE has cancelled all hearings for Monday June 25th at 201 Varick in response to #OccupyICENYC. Follow @MACC_NYC for updates. There are other sites of deportation in the city the protest may move to. Apologies for the sound quality of this episode, we decided it felt better to just continue to hold space at the occupation (please see the previous episode for our conversation with some of the organizers). Lucia is back from Berlin and imparts some insights from collectives over there; from the recently raided anarchist library Kalabalik to the direct action performance art group Center for Political Beauty. We also get into tricky intersections of rainbow capitalism and the potentials of queer liberation and socialism (for more come to this discussion: https://www.facebook.com/events/187818712052570/) Oh, and we started a Lupin the Third section.
Article referenced about murderous white supremacists groups that have never been held accountable:
Feminist art space in Providence:
The anarchist library:
The Center for Political Beauty:
More Germany notes:
This is one of the most famous squats in Berlin
They have been in a weird war with these people
Center for Political Correctness
This is another anarchist spot that has a community music festival I went to
And some hardcore from their lineup
Here’s a link for 325 (the anarchists who keep a ledger of the cop cars they set on fire) but their site is under construction
Amazing Lupin x Jigen thread:
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DISPATCH – #OCCUPYICENYC with the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC)
We’re back! Lucia has returned from Berlin! This episode we talk with the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council (MACC) and others spontaneously gathered at the ICE processing center/Immigration Center on 201 Varick Street to protest our country’s on-going abuse of migrants, refugees, and undocumented people. For up-to-date news follow MACC at https://twitter.com/macc_nyc or check the hashtag #occupyICENYC. For the leaked files check out Unicorn Riot at https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja ! Full episode coming soon.
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OK on Beast Coast
Big thank you to Beast Coast podcast for having OK on to talk about Art and Labor, and all sorts of other fun stuff.
Check it out: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/beast-coast/id1130424062?mt=2
Episode 4 – Artwashing and Soho
Call us Anna Delvey ’cause we’re delving into Soho. We get into the early days of some of the most powerful people in the art market, and how their greed has gone on to destroy neighborhoods and countless lives. This episode we try to demystify the “Art World” to better understand its influence. Art has a complicated role in gentrification; the Grayson Perry cartoon about artist neighborhoods has resonated with millions of people in its second life as an internet meme. We tie the idea of Artwashing to precarious economic situations exemplified by Richard Florida and Mistressvilles.
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DISPATCH – MoMA Local 2110’s Party on the Pavement
WE CAN’T EAT PRESTIGE! We joined the picket line in front of the Museum of Modern Art to greet the guests at their annual fundraiser “Party in the Garden” The MoMA workers organized their own “Party on the Pavement” to amplify their demand for a fair labor contract. We say hi to our friends Jeff and Maria, and learn what it’s like at the bargaining table. Email the MoMA director, let him know what you think: glenn_lowry@moma.org
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For photos and more info check out these links:
https://twitter.com/MoMA_Local2110
https://www.instagram.com/momalocal2110/
https://twitter.com/wetted_ashes
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Episode 3 – Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and Women Artists in Revolution
Beep beep!! New Art and Labor here! Your favorite podcast focusing on the on-going struggle to survive as an art or cultural worker. Hosted by O.K. Fox and Lucia Love. This episode we fill you in even more social justice activism happening in the late sixties/early seventies. We talk proto Guerrilla Girls, and we trace the legacy of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s pressure on The Met, MoMA, and The Whitney to current protests of The Brooklyn Museum. We despair about the continued lack of representation in these institutions, and ponder the effectiveness of identity-based strategies. We also get into some contextual tangents about Art & Language, The Fox, and Artists Meeting For Cultural Change.
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Much is pulled from the book “Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City” by Alan W. Moore published by Autonomedia in 2011 and “Exhibiting Authenticity: The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s Protests of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968-71” by Caroline V. Wallace published in Art Journal in 2015.
For photos and more info check out these links:
http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20908
https://aperture.org/blog/radical-black-women-changed-art-world/
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/12/archives/women-artists-demonstrate-at-whitney.html
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/we_wanted_a_revolution
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