David Graeber / How social and economic structure influences the Art World
Financial Consequences: International Multimedia Poetry Festival
info: theinstitute.info/?p=3558 9/2/ 2019 - at LSE
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supported by London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Anthropology
“How social and economic structure influences the Art World”
Lecture by the world-known professor of Anthropology David Graeber (London School of Economics) and founding member of The Institute for Experimental Arts
Influential anthropologist David Graeber, known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years speaks about the correlation between the cultural sphere and society. The intellectuals and the artists create an imaginary way to criticize the economic system in any era. Art can overcome hegemonic frameworks and acknowledge other possible worlds, offer us the opportunity to understand better the marginalized social entities. Social exclusion is the process in which individuals or people are systematically blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g., housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process). As the economic crises go deeper in time more people face the effects of exclusion. Art and social sciences can give voice to the voiceless. Especially young social aware poets can give us a clear view of the real social effect of the financial consequences.
“Financial Consequences - International MultiMedia Poetry Festival” challenges the perceptions of the economic crises and providing a new point of view via a wide variety of mediums. For the last 10 years, we see entrepreneurs, economists, bankers, technocrats and politicians to dominate the public opinion- now is the time for poets to explain to all of them the social impact of their decisions and their politics. The social awareness and sensitivity of poets - in collaboration with video artists and musicians- invited from countries crushed by the economic crises offer us the best possible view to invisible sites of social life, offer us the opportunity to understand and realize the Financial Consequences of economic crises in the everyday life of all of us and especially of people in suffer.
The Institute for Experimental Arts was founded in 2008 in Athens- Greece as a non-profit platform of creative expression and research in the fields of theater, performance art, digital media, installation, poetry and art theory. The Institute is committed to exist as an open meeting point for poets-writers, directors, actors, theater engineers/ technicians, performance artists, photographers, video artists and the writers who develop new analytical tools on contemporary art, media & communication.
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"people who came from a modest background and got a bourgeois education and then suddenly discovered that just having a bourgeois education didn't mean you actually got to be part of the bourgeoisie, so they were pissed off" I've never met david graeber but it seems david graeber has met me.
He mentions Alain Caillé (can be hard to hear if you cannot discern french since it sounds like eyyen cayyey) director of current La Revue du M.A.U.S.S. (MAUSS group) famous among anthropologists and political scientists perhaps, less so the public look him up and read his work. That is what Graeber is talking about.
@michaelwicks933
Жыл бұрын
thx
For those interested in reading more from David on this, check out his excellent 2008 essay, "The Sadness of Post-workerism."
@SourovKabirII
2 жыл бұрын
thanks
Amazing. "Unleash the venomous power of poetry". Yes !
Kissinger and Murdoch are still alive... its just not fair 😢
"The managerial classes, in the same way as they have appropriated from the proletarian that role of being the official allies of the financial elites, political allies. Managerialism has taken over on every level of physical art." - Graeber
Gone too soon - Graeber RIP
@instituteforexperimentalar7493
3 жыл бұрын
We will always remember his spirit. We will always read and spread his ideas.
beaurcracy provides the smoke screen and the buffer by which the managerial class can distance themselves from the consequences of their decisions and not be adults and take responsibility. ultimately they are children.
So good...
WE MUST FIGHT TO CARRY FORTH HIS MESSAGE. Let not get lazy folks! out in the streets again. spread the word! the planet doesn't have much time!
@voltcorp
2 жыл бұрын
the planet has billions of years ahead, still. *we* are the ones running out of time.
This is SO great! What a reflection!!!
Poetry is the only art form that can not turn into business- this offer to the poets the open possibility creating art communities instead of antagonostic chambers like all other artists
Wonderful! Always twelve ideas existing inside of one of David Graeber's other ideas about the world. He is a major loss to the world, and like Ursula K. Le Guin, taught us other ways of seeing.
@instituteforexperimentalar7493
3 жыл бұрын
He will influence the continuation of free-thinking for centuries
@ernststravoblofeld
3 жыл бұрын
Funny. I read The Dispossessed recently because David mentioned it. I'm not sure why I hadn't before.
23:22 apparently Graeber had never been on KZread. God rest his soul
RIP
David and his ilk support, whether wittingly or not, the control/power structure. How? Answer: All information/data is sold to the highest bidder.
@voidnetwork
2 жыл бұрын
Your comment makes no sense. Internet is a way to spread information and ideas. The ideas have their own power and are capable to change our minds even if we see them written on a paper made by a multi national corporation cutting trees to make paper or if you read them from internet. If you want to change the world you have to use all means in hand to benefit people and fight back exploitation and power. Otherwise you stay in your cave and pray for world peace.
@felicityc
2 жыл бұрын
Not really sure the intention of this comment, lol. I can't tell what it's criticizing. Are you saying that existing within society supports the control/power structure unless you do not live in it? Or that performance in these structures supports it? Or is it anti-utilitarianism? Are you talking about the internet or just the global market? Halp
@voltcorp
2 жыл бұрын
I, too, am not sure wtf you're talking about, but feel free to pirate any of Graeber's works. I'm sure his spirit wouldn't mind.
Interesting that many of the bourgeoisie kids in revolutionary circles found out that a bourgeois education didn't get you a position in the bourgeoisie. Sounds kinda familiar.
wonderful talk ! someone knows who he's talking about at 6:30? Hélène Cayet? Cayet? Cahier? Can't find her, neither the supposedly "famous" group he mentions :O
@felicityc
2 жыл бұрын
Alain Caillé director of current La Revue du M.A.U.S.S. (MAUSS group) famous among anthropologists and political scientists perhaps, less so the public
"Both of them are kind of phoney versions of something, The financiers are essentially phoney capitalists, and the bohemians are phoney proletarians... (Artists) a simulation of a working class, which is the perfect compliment to the financial simulation of the Capitalist class, ... both of them think of themselves as putting something over on the other" - Graeber
Braithimid uainn thú.
Excellent! Bullshittisation.
he is really off on this subject, he really does not see the value of art and has been distracted by the corrupted business aspects of this industry.