Gregory Sholette
Are you talking to me?

Many key assumptions held by an earlier generation of artists and activists about oppositional culture are being challenged today: a new wave of practitioners is less concerned with demystifying ideology than with disrupting it or establishing alternative models apart from the mainstream altogether. At the same time, the overall spirit of this new social-interventionist culture reveals a similarity to the anarcho-entrepreneurial spirit of the neo-liberal economy, including a highly plastic sense of collective identity and a romantic distrust of comprehensive administrative structures. Adorno once cautioned that culture was becoming increasingly similar to the realm of administration. Today business managers throw off traditional forms of organisation to extol non-linear thinking and flexible working habits not unlike artists and other creative labourers.

Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Gregory Sholette