Picturing Finance: An Exhibition on the Visual Imagination of Financial Capitalism

描绘金融：金融资本主义视觉想象展

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K001787/1
负责人：
Peter Knight
金额：
$ 11.12万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK001787%2F1
关键词：
Picturing Finance Exhibition Visual Imagination

项目摘要

As the Financial Services Authority's Turner Review (2009) of the current global financial crisis insisted, "Intellectual challenge to conventional wisdoms [that the market is 'efficient, rational, and self correcting'] is essential." Likewise the recent annual report of Chartered Financial Analyst Society of the UK warned that a lack of historical knowledge among institutional investors was a factor behind the current crisis (see Mundy 2011). The aim of this project is to make the insights of the New History of Capitalism available to a wider audience through the creation of a public exhibition at the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art (Sunderland) and accompanying catalogue and website on visual representations of Anglo-American financial capitalism over the last three centuries; together with an accompanying seminar that will bring together artists, writers, journalists and key figures from the financial and regulatory sectors; and an educational outreach programme for school children. By emphasising how finance has been imagined and represented in different historical moments and cultures - and indeed, by drawing attention to the very difficulty of picturing "the market" as a whole - this exhibition is designed to stimulate public debate about how a particular myth of the rational market came to be naturalised and how seemingly impenetrable complexities of finance have repeatedly mesmerised the public at different historical moments. The visual representation of financial capitalism is an underexplored research area in its own right, but an exhibition on this theme provides an exciting opportunity to engage the wider public and the media with the central intellectual concerns of the New History of Capitalism, at a time when the British public is all too painfully aware of the terrifying power of high finance. This would be the first exhibition to provide a broad historical overview of the visual imagination of finance. It thus constitutes both an important research achievement in its own right as well as an innovative way of making accessible to the public the idea that markets are not governed by immutable economic laws but are culturally and historically constructed.

正如金融服务局对当前全球金融危机的特纳评论（2009年）所坚持的那样，“对传统智慧的智力挑战（市场是有效的，理性的和自我纠正的）至关重要的。”同样，英国特许财务分析师协会最近的年度报告也警告说，机构投资者缺乏历史知识是当前危机的一个因素（请参阅Mundy 2011）。该项目的目的是通过在当代艺术（桑德兰）的北部画廊（Sunderland）和网站上创建一个公开展览，并在过去的三个世纪中创建盎格鲁美洲金融资本主义的视觉代表性，从而使更广泛的受众的新资本主义历史的见解；以及伴随的研讨会，该研讨会将召集财务和监管部门的艺术家，作家，记者和关键人物；以及针对学童的教育外展计划。通过强调如何在不同的历史时刻和文化中想象和代表财务 - 确实，通过注意将“市场”整体描绘成整体的困难，旨在激发公众关于理性市场的特定神话的辩论，即如何归化，以使归属感如何被归化，并且似乎是多么无能为力的财务复杂性，而这似乎是多么不可能的，这是多么公众在不同的历史悠久的历史时期中陷入了众多时刻。金融资本主义的视觉表现本身就是一个毫无创造的研究领域，但是关于这个主题的展览为广泛的公众和媒体提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，与新的资本主义新历史有关，当时英国公众太痛苦地意识到了高金融的恐怖力量。这将是第一个提供有关金融视觉想象的广泛历史概述的展览。因此，它本身就是一项重要的研究成就，也是一种使公众可访问市场的创新方式，即市场不受一成不变的经济法律管辖，而是文化和历史上建立的。