Pavilion UniCredit: An Artist’s Tale by Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat)
The text was originally published at eipcp.net.
I would like the following text to serve as a continuation of the discussion on the economy of the contemporary art world and the place of art and creative labor in the world of capital.
Let’s begin with a simple tale.
Once upon a time there was an artist who was [...]
Nothing is what democracy looks like: Openness, horizontality and the movement of movements by Rodrigo Nunes
Networked, horizontal forms have been at the centre of many of the political debates of the last ten years, and often been treated alternatively as the limit (by its enemies) and the solution (by its proponents) to the problems of organisation of resistance to global capitalism. This has unfortunately meant that critiques carried out ‘from [...]
Mental Prototypes and Monster Institutions. Some Notes by Way of an Introduction by Universidad Nómada
Mental Prototypes
For quite a while now, a certain portmanteau word has been circulating in the Universidad Nómada’s[1] discussions, in an attempt to sum up what we believe should be one of the results of the critical work carried out by the social movements and other post-socialist political actors. We talk about creating new mental prototypes [...]