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Ph.D. Afhandling 2015 Nelund3 Acts of Research Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art between Knowledge Economy and Critical Practice Nelund, Sidsel Publication date: 2015 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Document license: CC BY-NC-ND Citation for published version (APA): Nelund, S. (2015). Acts of Research: Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art between Knowledge Economy and Critical Practice. Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet. Download date: 05. okt.. 2021 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN PhD thesis Sidsel Nelund Acts of Research Knowledge Production in Contemporary Arts Between Knowledge Economy and Critical Practice Academic advisor: Anne Ring Petersen Co-advisor: T.J. Demos, University College London Institutnavn: Institut for Kunst og Kulturvidenskab Name of department: Department of Arts and Cultural Studies Author: Sidsel Nelund Title / Subtitle: Acts of Research: Knowledge Production in Contemporary Arts between Knowledge Economy and Critical Practice Subject description: The term ‘knowledge society’ is used to refer to the increasing relevance of non-manual knowledge-producing labour in current post-industrial economies. Contemporary art, especially since 1989, has not been left out of this trend, to the extent that today it is not rare to see artists and curators described as knowledge producers and exhibitions and art works as instances of knowledge production. Acts of Research: Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art between Knowledge Economy and Critical Practice analyses this development. Academic advisors: Anne Ring Petersen T.J. Demos, University College London Submitted: 10.10.2014 Acts of Research Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art between Knowledge Economy and Critical Practice TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. INTRODUCING THE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE ARTS . 11 Overview: Field and Thesis ................................................................................................ 11 Taking a Theoretical Stance ............................................................................................... 17 Knowledge Production as an Apparatus ........................................................................ 18 Acts of Research: Innovative Action ............................................................................... 20 Acts of Research: Creative Act ...................................................................................... 24 Acts of Research: Research ........................................................................................... 26 Methodological Considerations .......................................................................................... 29 Theoretical and Methodological Affinities ....................................................................... 29 Selection Criteria of Case Studies .................................................................................. 36 Methodology for a Geographically and Formally Diverse Field ...................................... 42 1. KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION: THE HISTORY OF A CONCEPT ........................ 46 I Produce: The Artist as Producer ...................................................................................... 47 The Studio as a Site of Production ................................................................................. 50 Social Engagement outside the Studio .......................................................................... 55 I Produce Knowledge: Knowledge Economy ...................................................................... 60 The Austrian School and Neoliberal Knowledge Economy 1940s-1980s ...................... 61 Knowledge Economy in Higher Education 1990s-2010s ............................................... 69 I Produce Knowledge in the Arts ........................................................................................ 78 Early Discursive Genealogy: Late 1990s till Early 2000s ............................................... 78 Late Discursive Genealogy: Late 2000s till Early 2010s ................................................ 85 A Concept in Practice: Acts of Research ............................................................................ 91 2. ACTS OF RESEARCH I ........................................................................................ 95 The Image and Moments of War ........................................................................................ 96 The Forensic Image In Rabih Mroué’s The Pixelated Revolution and Hito Steyerl’s The Kiss ..................................................................................................................................... 97 Shaping Uncertainty: The Kiss ....................................................................................... 99 The Promise of the Image ............................................................................................ 104 Dissecting Uncertainty: The Pixelated Revolution ........................................................ 109 Blowing Up, Taking Shape: The Forensic Image ......................................................... 116 The Opaque Image In The Otolith Group’s Nervus Rerum .............................................. 120 Rerum: Things Coming Together ................................................................................. 122 Nervus: Grasping without Reducing ............................................................................. 132 Nervus Rerum: Doing Otherwise .................................................................................. 137 Thinking the Image by Doing the Image ........................................................................... 140 Artistic Research .............................................................................................................. 145 Theoretical Awareness and Artistic Methodology ........................................................ 145 The Art Object as Theory ............................................................................................. 150 Between Act and Object ............................................................................................... 152 3. ACTS OF RESEARCH II ..................................................................................... 155 An Event of Knowledge: Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices in Beirut 2002-2013 .......................................................................................................... 157 The Urgency of a Forum ................................................................................................... 159 Providing Means of Production ......................................................................................... 165 Practices and Formats ................................................................................................. 166 Intellectual Nurture of Translocal Kindred Concerns ........................................................ 172 Animating Intimacy ........................................................................................................... 177 Conceptualising Intimacy: Affect and Memory ............................................................. 180 Affect, Memory or Knowledge? .................................................................................... 184 Curating Research ............................................................................................................ 187 III Bienal de La Habana 1989 ....................................................................................... 192 dOCUMENTA (13) 2012 .............................................................................................. 195 The Responsive Curatorial Method .................................................................................. 199 4. ACTS OF RESEARCH III .................................................................................... 201 Learning and Economy: Job Training or Critical Thinking? .............................................. 204 Instituting Learning in Tania Bruguera’s Cátedra de Arte de Conducta and Henriette Heise and Jakob Jakobsen’s Copenhagen Free University ............................. 208 Cátedra Arte de Conducta 2002-2009 ......................................................................... 209 Art Production and Market Economy ....................................................................... 212 Radical Pedagogy of Conduct ................................................................................. 214 Copenhagen Free University 2001-2007 ..................................................................... 215 From Manual to Immaterial Labour .......................................................................... 220 Vulnerability, Social Relations and Exodus Pedagogy ............................................ 223 Instituent Pedagogic Practices ..................................................................................... 225 The Dialectics of Learning in Boris Buden’s Learning Place ............................................ 226 Learning Table: Between Critical Theory and Neoliberal Management ....................... 232 Living to Work or Working to Live? ............................................................................... 237 Negation and Forceful Pedagogy ................................................................................. 240 Learning Research ..........................................................................................................
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