LEAKING CONTAINER. Index Festival 2020 - Result

LEAKING CONTAINER. Index Festival 2020

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For Leaking Container, Frida Sandström presents a talk flowing into discussion, under the tentative title “A self-conscious illusion: immanent objections to production”. Sandström highlights connections between ‘Liquid Fiction’ and her current PhD research regarding the ‘disintegrated’ artwork of today, and how it may be understood in relation to other changes in society. Sandström’s talk departs from a research paper seeking to reinterpret the appearance of the 1968 art-theoretical concept of ‘dematerialisation’, introduced as the Western concept of art merged with everyday life during the downfall of the avant-garde, predicting an ascendant paradigm of (il)liberal, supposedly ‘dematerialised’ labour – despite the fact that all labour is material. Different from neighbouring post-Marxian concepts such as ‘immaterial’, ‘cognitive’ or ‘emotional’, the concept allows us to analyse closer a shift: the moment at which labour is turned ‘into a demonstration of itself’, which consequently helps us to ignore its actual exertion. This is not what Lucy Lippard meant, yet this differently distributed mode of production – virtual or not – circulates its living labour as seemingly dematerialised, disintegrated products – formal reception being essential to its materialisation and valorisation (as art objects, as commodities).

Frida Viktoria Sandström - Speaker

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

19 Sep 2020

Conference

Conference	LEAKING CONTAINER. Index Festival 2020
Location	Index Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm (online)
Country	Sweden
City	Index Foundation for Contemporary Art
Period	17/09/2020 → 19/09/2020
Internet address	http://indexfoundation.se/talks-and-events/leaking-container-frida-sandstraem

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