License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenDissertation • November 22nd, 2021
Contract Type FiledNovember 22nd, 2021This dissertation investigates the fabric and the infrastructure of contemporary artistic production. The focal question is how the contemporary field of institutional artistic production is organised and how the relations between its actors and functions: artists, curators, institution, governance and theory are structured, and how the artistic object that results from their interaction is produced. The first general backdrop of this investigation, is the condition of cognitive capitalism. This condition, that defines production and working- relations in late capitalism as analysed by Paolo Virno, is characterized by the primacy of communications. It presumes that no longer there is a clear demarcation between aesthetics, labour and politics in the general make-up of production and economy. This situation also affects artistic production and the relationships between the main actors: artist, curator and theoretical reflection in regards to who holds the authorship over the artistic ob
License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenDissertation • November 22nd, 2021
Contract Type FiledNovember 22nd, 2021This dissertation investigates the fabric and the infrastructure of contemporary artistic production. The focal question is how the contemporary field of institutional artistic production is organised and how the relations between its actors and functions: artists, curators, institution, governance and theory are structured, and how the artistic object that results from their interaction is produced. The first general backdrop of this investigation, is the condition of cognitive capitalism. This condition, that defines production and working- relations in late capitalism as analysed by Paolo Virno, is characterized by the primacy of communications. It presumes that no longer there is a clear demarcation between aesthetics, labour and politics in the general make-up of production and economy. This situation also affects artistic production and the relationships between the main actors: artist, curator and theoretical reflection in regards to who holds the authorship over the artistic ob