Art Beyond the Creative City:Art, Politics, and Urban Life

08.16, 5:30pm — 08.20, 8:30pm
Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum, Classroom 1 (map)

The Village Workshop Week 2

Pascal Gielen

Pascal Gielen is?full professor of sociology of art and cultural politics at the Research Center Arts in Society (Groningen University - the Netherlands) and at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University - Belgium). He is editor in-chief of the international book series Arts in Society. His research focuses on the institutional context of the arts, creative labour and cultural politics.?

Workshop Schedule
5:30PM - 8:30PM, August 16, 17, 18, 19, 20(due to rescheduling, 5 lectures were done during August 16 to 19. Links to full lecture videos are matched with the topic of the lecture.)

Since the financial crisis started at the end of 2007 a lot of governments do budget cuts in the cultural and artistic field. These policy decisions originated from the critical theory of Herbert Marcuse are understood within an ideological framework as ‘repressive liberalism’. It claims to advocate freedom of individual, encourages creating more culture businesses to establish creative city, and on the other hand, it develops a giant dispersive control device repressing the freedom of art and individual. Within this cultural policy, creative labor itself can also be ‘instrumentalized’ as a repressive tool. In these workshops Pascal Gielen analyses the relationship between art, politics and the public space in the creative city on a global level, while looking into how activists and creative ‘workers’ respond to this policy by organizing themselves in alternative ways.

Day 1. Macro-Sociological Changes and Global Culture
Day 2. Macro-Sociological Changes and Art Institutional Shifts
Day 3. Macro-sociological Changes and Responses of Artists : Community Art, Cultural Entrepreneurship and Activism
Day 4. Macro-Sociological Changes and Artistic Biotopes
Day 5. Macro-Sociological Changes and the Common City