Commons
- Communing represents a new way for everyday citizens to make decisions and take action to shape the future of their communities.
- A way of being, land relations defined as a social practice with energy, gas, oil, wind, solar and so on.
- Sociology of imperialism and psychology of ‘possessive individualism’.
- Anthropocentrism embodied in western scientism is limiting.
- The triangle: 1) a pool of shared resources. 2) Relation of sharing. 3) Reproduction of the commons.
- Tragedy of the commons-example: Financial crisis
- The claims related to Michel Foucault.
- The terms of ‘altermodernity’: the abstraction and regimentation of labor.
- Site: Scottish national gallery
- Case:
Skira Art Books recently unveiled a new illustrated publication that explores the relationship between basketball and contemporary art. Entitled Common Practice, the comprehensive tome shed lights on over a century of artwork from over 200 leading artists including Nina Chanel Abney, Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Salvador Dalí, Elaine de Kooning, Keith Haring, David Hammons, KAWS and more. Common Practice is the first illustrated publication to analyze this overlap between art and sport. “This book argues that the need to rehearse, discover and explore through the act of doing makes these two very different ideas of perfecting one’s craft very similar,” as a description.
- Re-imagining and re-doing, the role of art is indispensable. Western cultural and art systems, developing discursive and aesthetic positions-‘operational’.
- Aesthetics that are being embodied, second creates a relation to the larger concept of the ‘commons’.
- Reflective analysis: How can we understand the relationship between commons and art? Why does it become an inevitable trend in contemporary art?
