[spectre] Outsider Art: The Art Market's 'Cultural Capitalism' Moment.

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

Outsider Art: The Art Market's 'Cultural Capitalism' Moment.

New article on Furtherfield by Robert Jackson
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/outsider-art-art-markets-cultural-capitalism-moment

We all know what Outsider Art is, and the fallaciousness of the term - 
yet, why is the mainstream art world suddenly turning towards it?

"The 55th Venice Biennale has arrived, and with it brings a new state of 
trends which are pontificated around, with a chuckle, a sense of forced 
opportunity and the shrugged sigh of 'well, everyone's doing this now 
apparently.' Outsider artworks (echoing Dubuffet) are aesthetically 
valuable, precisely insofar as they haven't been created for the sole 
purpose of critique, nor for being deliberately market-friendly (the 
last point is quite contentious). They are what they are. Or at least, 
'what they are' is grouped around a deviation from the mainstream 'norm'."

Robert Jackson, is currently studying an MPhil/PhD at Lancaster 
University. His thesis focuses on Algorithmic Artworks, Art Formalism 
and Speculative Realist Ontologies, looking at digital artworks which 
operate as configurable units rather than networked systems, and attain 
independent autonomy themselves which are capable of aesthetics, rather 
than any supposed primary function as communicative, rational tools. The 
working title is Algorithm, Contingency and The Non-Human: The 
Aesthetics of Undecidability in Computational Art.

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