Call for Artists: Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism & Resistance
CALL FOR ARTISTS: Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance
A Collaborative Art Installation
OPENSOURCE Art in partnership with Fetishizing the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism, Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 29-30, 2005
Deadlline for initial proposals: April 8, 2005
Download the Call for Artists (pdf)
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A simple definition of �neoliberalism� remains elusive: the term mutates as often as the global capitalism it seeks to describe. To provide a conceptual framework for the collaborative installation, Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance, we have chosen to foreground:
***market expansion in social and cultural life, from the cult of the CEO to �competitive solutions� to social problems;
***the end of laissez faire: crony capitalism and government intervention on behalf of markets and corporations;
***the �global U.S.� and/or the third-worldization of U.S. labor
SKINLESS CAPITAL will ask how artists and makers can resist neoliberalism�s conflation of economic and cultural values. OPENSOURCE Art and the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory seek collaborators for a gallery-wide installation to open on April 30, during the Unit�s international conference, Fetishizing the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism.
We suggest (but do not require) that work responds to the following modes of resistance, as explained by Jan Nederveen Pieterse in his February 2005 Unit lecture, �Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism: Coding/Decoding/Recoding�:
***Cynicism (e.g., Office Space, My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable)
***Unplugging (�Off the Grid� culture, Luddism)
***Decoding (Adbusters, culture jamming, No Logo)
***Recoding (consumer boycotts, stakeholder society, corporate activism)
<< reconstruction >>
Skinless Capital will transform OPENSOURCE Art�s downtown Champaign gallery into an image-saturated space that conveys the scope, penetration, and limits of neoliberal economics and governmentality. We seek artists working in all media and encourage participants to manipulate our gallery, using its 1500 sq ft floor-space, combination of large and small rooms, and storefront windows to their fullest extent.
To view our space, stop by any Fri 3-7 & Sat 10-12; or email opensource@boxwith.com to make alternative arrangements. Floor plans and diagrams of the space will be posted very soon.
<< timeline for proposals & installation >>
By April 8: Email proposals to opensource@boxwith.com and include full contact information
April 8: Notification of acceptance
April 17: Local Artist�s Meeting
April 23-25: Work/Installation Days
April 30: Opening Night and Party
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