[spectre] symposium: Artists as Producers. Transformation of Public Space

[eipcp]

INVITATION to the

republicart symposium

Artists as Producers.
Transformation of Public Space
15-16 October 2004
organised by the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, LV

Based upon Walter Benjamin's seminal essay "The Author as Producer", a whole
range of theorists have developed approaches towards an aesthetics of
production. Benjamin's arguments today may serve as a ground for
distinguishing the different political, social and economic backgrounds in
"Western Europe" and post- Communist countries. What about political art's
function of supplying the capitalist production apparatus, not changing it?
What about the artists as producers rather than experts for the universal?
What about the different transformations of public space in "Western Europe"
and post- Communist countries, where highly ideologized spaces have turned
into consumers' spaces within the shortest period of time?

with Boris Buden, Jesper Dalmose, Helena Demakova, Anders Harm, Lolita
Jablonskiene, Oleg Kireev, Normunds Kozlov, Maria Lind, Gerald Raunig,
Edmunds Supulis, Aneta Szylak, Friedrich Tietjen, et al.

Reutern's House
Riga, Str. Marstalu 2

http://www.republicart.net/conf2004/benjamin_index.htm


forthcoming:

conference
Strategies of (In)Visibility
3-4 February 2005
Camden Art Centre | London, UK
http://www.republicart.net/conf2004/visibility_index.htm

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