11. Burst the Bubble

Capital A: Unauthorized Opinions on Money, Art & Everything

As artists, we often despair about the efficacy of our work and its ability to advocate for change. Part of this has to do with the fact that the art gallery/museum circuit can feel like a bubble, where everyone largely agrees on the issues and advocacy of any kind feels like preaching to the choir. But the more I think about this problem, the more I've come to feel that this agreement is an illusion. This episode argues that taken as a whole, the audiences of art galleries and museums are some of the most powerful people in our society—precisely the people that need to be convinced that things need to change.

WORKS CITED

-Foster, Hal. What Comes After Farce. Illustrated Edition. London ; New York: Verso, 2020.

-Piketty, Thomas. Capital and Ideology. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2020.

-Hodges, Betsy. “Opinion | As Mayor of Minneapolis, I Saw How White Liberals Block Change.” The New York Times, July 9, 2020, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/minneapolis-hodges-racism.html.

-Liscia, Valentina Di. “Brooklyn Museum Employees Accuse Administration of Staff Mistreatment.” Hyperallergic (blog), September 17, 2020. https://hyperallergic.com/588184/brooklyn-museum-staff-open-letter/.

-Badiou, Alain. “Concerning the Dominant Ideologies of the Contemporary World.” UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory, December 1, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74u2_Fg-UHo.

-Östlund, Ruben. The Square. Comedy, Drama. Plattform Produktion, Film i Väst, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, 2017.

MUSIC

-Theme music and consultation: Georgina Rossi, www.georginarossi.com

-Interlude: Johann Sebastian Bach, Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor - II. Largo

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