Lectures

The Book of the Now

Ethel Baraona Pohlis a critic and curator and, along with César Reyes, the co-founder of dpr-barcelona, an architectural research studio and publishing house engaged in publishing activities, criticism and curating. The organisation explores architecture’s intersections with art, technology, economics, social issues and what it means to present oneself today. Their publications seek out the limits of presentation in print, new media and the live exchange of knowledge.

(dpr-barcelona)

placeAVU in Prague
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castEthel Baraona Pohl
cameraDavid Přílučík
soundDavid Přílučík
editingDavid Přílučík
categoryLectures
published23. 7. 2018
languageČesky / English
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The Book of the Now
In the lecture, I would like to address the issue of the labour of the artist from the perspective of the feminist artistic work and discuss, how already from the end of the 1970s feminists artists engaged with the issues of the flexible and precarious work, the issues that are also so pertinent in the labour of the artist today. From the perspective of those artists, the exploration of labour opened new dimension how to understand and reflect upon labour of female artist and her emancipated life.
Whereas Marina Abramović will continue to benefit from her position of a stock market player who invested well her hard earned capital into a lucrative mega-corporation called Art World, Václav Pišvejc, on the contrary, will, in his fight for acknowledgement, forever remain mainly a Sisyphus-like figure and a question mark hovering above normality and normalization of contemporary culture.