To Whom Belongs Your Work?

08.25, 2:00pm — 08.28, 5:00pm
Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum, Classroom 1 (map)

The Village Workshop Week 3

Marianne Flotron

Marianne Flotron ?is mainly interested in the interrelationship between political and economic systems and human behavior. How the subject creates the society and how, in return, the society is creating its subjects, forms a basis for her work. Recently she employed different techniques based on role-playing and introduced them to actual situations exploring the impact of social science on behavior.?She currently lives and works in Amsterdam.?

Sylvia Sasse
Sylvia Sasse teaches Slavic literature at the University of Zurich and is co-founder and member of the Center for Arts and Cultural Theory (ZKK). She is the editor of Novinki and of History of the Present.

Workshop Schedule
2PM - 5PM, August 25, 26, 27, 28

The main question of the workshop is how political and economic systems influence the production of art. Participants will experience how the competition of the market affects art production, self-regulation and beyond our body through discussions and performances based on praxeology. We will start the workshop with a lecture “Art as propaganda” on how the states’ art production support system and distribution structure have direct impact on art productions. The second part of the workshop will deal with one of the main component of the contemporary market economy - the competition. In a group effort and through a series of assignments, we will address the issue of competition and try to create new ways of understanding it.

Day 1. Lecture , Sylvia Sasse 'Art as Propaganda and Performative Censorship'
Day 2. Art treated as a commodity by political and economic systems and production
Day 3. Power mechanisms and self-censorship
Day 4. Self-regulating tools: competition, the body and the work