Cities & The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude

08.20, 2:00pm — 4:00pm
Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum Floor 1 (map)
The Village Open to the Public Week 3

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.

Since the financial crisis started at the end of 2007 a lot of governments do budget cuts in the cultural and artistic field. Inspired by the critical social theory of Herbert Marcuse (1964), these policy decisions are understood within an ideological framework as ‘repressive liberalism’. That is a (cultural) politics that on the one hand proclaims individual freedom, stimulates cultural entrepreneurship and embraces the creative city, but on the other hand develops a large-scale decentralized control apparatus that strongly restricts individual and artistic freedom. Within this cultural policy creative labour itself can also be ‘instrumentalized’ as a repressive tool. In his lecture Pascal Gielen analyses the relationship between art, politics and the public space in the creative city. He also looks how activists and creative ‘workers’ respond to this policy by organizing themselves in alternative ways. ?

-?Registration?Period: August 16,?9 am?-?August 19,?6?pm
- Registration is closed in advance?due to limited?seat availability. Thank you for your understanding.

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