Mapping Creative Labour in Contemporary Art

映射当代艺术中的创造性劳动

• 批准号: AH/X013103/1
• 负责人: Dave Beech
• 金额: $ 4.7万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX013103%2F1
• 关键词: Mapping; Creative; Labour; Contemporary; Art

Mapping Creative Labour in Contemporary Art will assemble leading academics and practitioners in the field to form an interdisciplinary network of artists, art historians, sociologists and art workers to investigate current patterns of paid and unpaid work in the production and circulation of contemporary art. Work has become a leading topic in academia for the arts, humanities and the social sciences in recent years, but the scholars operating within this emergent field have not yet had the opportunity to reflect on its scope and survey its achievements and limitations. The need for this network to map the field has been given urgency by the difficulties faced by creative workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Panic! Report further demonstrates that the 'workforce for cultural occupations [...] is marked by significant exclusions, by class, gender and ethnicity.' (Brook, O'Brien, and Taylor, 2019) What's needed, therefore, is (1) a reflection on the academic field as a whole, mapping its knowledges and discourses of the art sector as well as identifying its biases and blind spots, and (2) the integration of the diverse working conditions of the arts within the academic field.For a sense of the scale and diversity of the growing literature on the subject, see Dani Child "Working Aesthetics" (2019), Dave Beech "Art and Labour" (2020), Julia Bryan Wilson "Art Workers" (2011), Leigh Clare La Berge "Wages Against Artwork" (2019), Friederike Siegler "Work: Documents of Contemporary Art" (2017), Miya Tokumitsu "Do What You Love" (2019), Andrew Ross "No Collar", Mark Banks "The Politics of Cultural Work" (2007), David Frayne, "The Refusal of Work" (2015), Cecilia Widenheim, Lisa Rosendahl, Michele Masucci, Annika Enqvist and Jonatan Habib Engqvist (eds) "Work Work Work", Bernes "Art in the Age of Deindustrialisation", Zygmunt Bauman "Work, Consumerism and the New Poor" (2005), Andrea Komlosy "Work: The Last 1000 Years", Joanna Warsza "I Can't Work Like This", Precarious Workers Brigade "Training for Exploitation?" (2012), Silvia Federici, "Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle" (2012), Kathi Weeks "The Problem with Work" 2011, Ricardo Antunes "The Meanings of Work" (2013)For this network, artists and academics with expertise in questions of labour in the cultural industries other "art workers" (studio assistants, fabricators, art suppliers, museum workers and communities of artist-run organisations) will be brought together in site visits and/or online meetings to compare a diverse range of social relations that are hidden behind the myth of the artist as the sole producer of artworks. The goal is for the exchanges to make it possible for the first time for the experts in this emerging cross-disciplinary field to reflect on the field as a whole and map the full range of waged and unwaged work in art.This network will be led by Dr Dave Beech (PI) Reader in Art and Marxism at University of the Arts London (UAL), with Dr Dani Child as Co-I, Senior Lecturer in Art History, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Beech is the author of Art and Value (Brill, 2015) and Art and Labour (Brill, 2020) which radically rethink the economics of artistic labour and the history of the changing relationship between art, craft and industry. As Professor of Art as Valand Academy, Sweden, Beech was responsible for organising major international research events such as the bi-annual Parse conference. Child has published widely on the subject of art and labour. Her monograph Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Bloomsbury, 2019) is an important contribution to the shift in art history away from the myth of the lone artist towards the network of makers and support workers that make art possible. She is also experienced in organising academic events and panels. Child is Co-I on the AHRC-funded project 'COVID-19: Impacts on the cultural industries and the implications for policy'.

当代艺术中的创造性劳动映射将汇集该领域的领先学者和实践者，形成一个由艺术家，艺术史学家，社会学家和艺术工作者组成的跨学科网络，以调查当代艺术生产和流通中当前有偿和无偿工作的模式。近年来，工作已经成为艺术、人文和社会科学学术界的一个主要话题，但在这个新兴领域工作的学者还没有机会反思它的范围，调查它的成就和局限性。创意工作者在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间面临的困难，迫切需要建立这一网络来绘制这一领域的地图。恐慌!报告进一步表明，“文化职业的劳动力……]的特点是被阶级、性别和种族严重排斥。（Brook， O' brien, and Taylor, 2019）因此，我们需要的是(1)对整个学术领域的反思，绘制其知识和艺术领域的话语，并确定其偏见和盲点，以及(2)在学术领域内整合艺术的不同工作条件。要了解关于这一主题的日益增长的文献的规模和多样性，请参阅Dani Child的“工作美学”（2019），Dave Beech的“艺术与劳动”（2020），Julia Bryan Wilson的“艺术工作者”（2011），Leigh Clare La Berge的“工资反对艺术”（2019），Friederike Siegler的“工作：《当代艺术文献》（2017）、Miya Tokumitsu《做你喜欢的事》（2019）、Andrew Ross《无领》、Mark Banks《文化工作的政治》（2007）、David Frayne《工作的拒绝》（2015）、Cecilia Widenheim、Lisa Rosendahl、Michele Masucci、Annika Enqvist和Jonatan Habib Engqvist（主编）《工作工作工作》、Bernes《去工业化时代的艺术》、Zygmunt Bauman《工作、消费主义和新贫困》（2005）、Andrea Komlosy《工作：《最后的1000年》、乔安娜·瓦尔萨《我不能这样工作》、不稳定工人大队《剥削培训？》（2012），西尔维娅·费德里奇，《原点的革命：家务、生育和女权主义斗争”（2012），Kathi Weeks“工作的问题”（2011），Ricardo Antunes“工作的意义”（2013）在这个网络中，具有文化产业劳动问题专业知识的艺术家和学者其他“艺术工作者”(工作室助理，制造商，艺术供应商，博物馆工作人员和艺术家组织的社区将通过实地考察和/或在线会议聚集在一起，比较隐藏在艺术家作为艺术品唯一生产者的神话背后的各种社会关系。我们的目标是让这个新兴的跨学科领域的专家们第一次从整体上反思这个领域，并绘制出艺术中有工资和无工资工作的全部范围。该网络将由伦敦艺术大学（UAL）艺术与马克思主义专业的Dave Beech博士（PI）和曼彻斯特城市大学（MMU）艺术史高级讲师Dani Child博士共同领导。Beech是《艺术与价值》（Brill, 2015）和《艺术与劳动》（Brill, 2020）的作者，这两本书从根本上重新思考了艺术劳动的经济学以及艺术、工艺和工业之间不断变化的关系的历史。作为瑞典Valand学院的艺术教授，Beech负责组织重大的国际研究活动，如两年一次的Parse会议。《儿童》在艺术和劳动问题上发表了大量文章。她的专著《工作美学：劳动、艺术和资本主义》（Bloomsbury出版社，2019年）对艺术史从孤独艺术家的神话转向使艺术成为可能的制造者和支持工作者的网络做出了重要贡献。她在组织学术活动和小组讨论方面也很有经验。Child是美国人权理事会资助的项目“COVID-19：对文化产业的影响及其对政策的影响”的共同负责人。