scholarly journals On Zero Waste in Art and the Reproduction of Capitalism with 'Human Face'

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-98
Author(s):  
Nadine Schneiderbauer
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Consumption ◽  
Art World ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay engages with the increasingly popular trend of 'zero waste', one more and more shaping the art world itself. It argues that the devotion to ethical consumption, to recycling, and especially to upcycling and production of artworks for the consumption of the rich falls within the currently dominant ideology of capitalism with a human face. The author also discusses zero waste with the artist Lavinia Lanner.

scholarly journals Glocalization: An Analytical Path Towards More Inclusive Contemporary Art?

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Lina Abazine
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Art Worlds ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Art

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay deals critically with the notion of the 'global art world', showing that there may instead be numerous self-centred and ethnocentric art worlds, while also critically engaging with inequalities that persist within and across these art worlds and markets. In this respect it also deals with the work of the Iranian artist Aria Vooria, based in Vienna, and his struggle to escape streotypizations across different art worlds.

scholarly journals Hegemonies in Art: Struggles of an Aspiring Artist

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-40
Author(s):  
Luka Mirkovic
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay considers the pressures young artists face in the contemporary art world, illustrated on the case of a young Viennese artist Kathrin Zobl.

scholarly journals Artist's Gaze and Zero Waste: Materiality and Value

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-105
Author(s):  
Marlies Scheuchenegger
Keyword(s):  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay deals with the question of zero waste and value of art, using the example of art by Leo Schatzl.

scholarly journals On the Art World, Museum ‘Prisons’ and Artistic Freedom

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Lidia Martínez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Art World ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Artistic Freedom ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay investigates the structure of the art world, as well as the role of museums, likening them to prisons of taste, thus pointing to structural limitations imposed upon the artist, while also showing, using the case of the Viennese photographer Sabine Hauswirth, that even within such system, artistic freedom, or at least its semblance, are possible.

scholarly journals The Vocational Regime in Art: On Myths and Performativity

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Mathilde Legret
Keyword(s):  
Art World ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay analyzes the development and mythology behind the notion of 'vocation' within the art world, while using the case of the Viennese artist Ursula Hübner. It argues that it is not only art institutions and the society, but also artists themselves who are complicit in the reproduction and valorization of the myth of vocation in art.

scholarly journals On Regimes of Value in the Art World and the Art of Bernhard Rappold

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Maria Bene
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Multiple Source ◽  
Art World ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay focuses on multiple source of value creation in the artworld, while using material from interviews with the Viennese artist Bernhard Rappold.

scholarly journals ‘Poor Theatre’, Russian Avant-garde and the Art of Anna Bochkova

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Sophia Oberrauch
Keyword(s):  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay discusses the art of the Viennese based Russian artist Anna Bochkova in the context of the Russian avant-garde.

scholarly journals Resisting the Pressures of the Global Art Market

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Marko Saranovic
Keyword(s):  
Art Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Art ◽  
The Way

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essays discusses the pressures of the global art market on artists, as well as the way in which the price of an artwork in the art market came to stand for its quality, rather than the other way round. Using the case of the Viennese artist Christian Ruschitzka, the essay suggest that there is some resistance and genuine critique possible, but only under certain conditions.

scholarly journals Rethinking Social Norms Through Performance Art

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Isabel Elisabeth Winter
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay focuses on the role of performance art in challenging established social norms and the work of the Austrian artist Michael René Sell.

scholarly journals When the Forgotten and Discarded Becomes Art: Maren Jeleff’s Photography

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Benedicta Wöllauer
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essay presents the artwork of the Austrian anthropologist Maren Jeleff, and image which has become a work of art by being forgotten and discarded in the first place, only to be redefined as valuable within the institutional context of the exhibition.

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