Events
Discussion - "Art, Money, and Labor in Practice: Culture Work in the Creative City"
Date and Time
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Description
Artists, Students, Activists, Creatives, and Cultural Entrepreneurs are invited to a discussion with Max Haiven on the practical realities of cultural work and the complex dynamics and processes at play when art, money, and labor engage in the creative city. The discussion will draw from Dr. Haiven's work (text links available in advance) and from works on display in the "I Am: Money Matters" exhibit in the Fed Galleries @ KCAD.
Max Haiven is a writer, teacher and organizer, and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Art History and Critical Studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada. His research focuses on themes including the financialization of society and culture, social movements and the radical imagination, the politics and economics of culture, critical art practices, and social and cultural theory. He writes articles for both academic and general audiences and has been published in venues including Truth-Out, Dissident Voice, Social Text, Cultural Studies, Cultural Politics and Interface: A Journal For and About Social Movements. He is author of the books Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons (Zed Books, 2014), The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (with Alex Khasnabish, Zed Books, 2014) and Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Haiven comes to Grand Rapids as part of an international speaking tour that includes presentations in Berlin, Istanbul, Thessaloniki (Greece), Sapporo (Japan), Los Angeles, Oakland, Vancouver, Montreal, and Vilnius (Lithuania).
These events are presented by the Office for Public Culture at GVSU and are co-sponsored by: the Visual Studies Studio in the Department of Art and Design at GVSU, The Fed Galleries, Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD), and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. The Office for Public Culture is a project in the Brooks College for Interdisciplinary Studies at GVSU.
For more information and recommended texts: http://opublicculture.org/
http://www.kcad.edu/galleries/fed-galleries/
http://visualstudies.art.gvsu.edu