Autonomous Art Institutions: Artists Disrupting the Creative City

Alberto Cossu

doi:10.5771/9781786616036

Summary

Alberto Cossu's ethnographic research on the MACAO centre in Italy radiates out to questions about what it means to be a modern artist, and how much autonomy is left to the artist in a globalized and politicised world.

"Autonomous Art Institutions" provides a unique perspective on the political engagement of artists in order to investigate the reconfiguration of contemporary art practices as they dissolve in social and economic processes. The book provides insight into the making of a radical art institution across seven years of activity, showing how social, cultural and economic elements are appropriated and repurposed by artists in the process. Based on years of sociological research as well as direct involvement of the author in the artistic practices, the book illuminates the spark of society-to-come by examining the doings of artists as they attempt to disrupt the ‘creative city’.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78661-602-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78661-603-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 138
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
1. Beyond Dialectic: The Political Power of Theorising a New Subject No access
2. Milan: The Tale of a Creative City No access
3. Situating Macao in a Broader Context No access
4. From Art Activism to Autonomous Art Institutions No access
5. Chapter Outline No access
1. The Struggles of Deliberative Democracy No access
2. Making Sense of Macao No access
3. (Re)thinking Art in Mobilisation No access
1. Backstage No access
2. 1. Getting In No access
3. Getting On No access
4. Offstage: Case Selection and Research Techniques No access
1. A Magic Hat in a Digital World No access
2. Strolling to the Skyscraper No access
3. The Galfa Tower Event No access
4. Macao’s Media Practices No access
5. Connective Logic: A Performative Dimension No access
6. Eventful Logic: Eventful Protest No access
1. Organisation in Hybrid Movements No access
2. Macao’s Composite Reality No access
3. Resolving Conflicts No access
4. Relations in Practice No access
5. Macao’s Relational Patterns No access
1. Alternative Forces as Cultural Producers in the Creative City No access
2. Political Mobilisation No access
3. Milan’s Cultural Strategies No access
4. Is Macao an Alternative Answer to the ‘Creative City’? No access
5. Macao within the Political Arena No access
6. Macao within the Creative Milieu No access
7. Conclusions No access
1. Art as an Instrument No access
2. Art as a Set of Practices No access
3. Art as a Frontier No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Chapter 1 No access
3. Chapter 2 No access
4. Chapter 3 No access
5. Chapter 4 No access
6. Chapter 5 No access
References No access Pages 119 - 130
Index No access Pages 131 - 138