Dialogues between art and business : collaborations, cooptations, and autonomy in a knowledge society / by Anke Strauss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strauss, Anke, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

The relationship between the fine art and the business sphere has never been harmonious; it has been rejected, fought about, ignored, exploited, criticised and questioned, but it is still omnipresent. Commonly assumed to be antagonistic, situating art and the business organisation sphere in the discourses of new knowledge creation and learning, however, holds the potential of exploring new ways of relating the two spheres. This book investigates such potentialities, discussing the limits and challenges of these new forms of relating. It does so by first outlining the changing discourses of the art and business spheres, and how they produce different ways of relating to their respective worlds. Second, it brings into conversation an ethnographic study of an art-business-collaboration organised by two artists with a Deleuzian concept of dialogue. Dialogue, here, is understood as a non-hierarchical encounter developing between two spheres; a source of creation no longer belonging to anyone. In what is here termed "a machinic research framework" - accounting for composition and movement on all scales - the book shows how making connections is a discursive and material practice with expectations and imaginaries playing a central role. It also addresses the paradoxical interplays between losing control and maintaining control in collaborative attempts, between reaching out for the Other and carrying out identity work, and between positions in the centre and in the margins of the highly stratified and codified areas of business organisations and fine art. Eventually, this book examines small dialogical instances that escape the stratifying forces dividing the two worlds, thereby creating a temporary space. It closes with a reflection on the role of research in thinking (and making) new ways of relating the world of fine art and the business organisation

sphere.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Chapter One

Distant Business: Art's Antagonist

The Imperative of Autonomy

Art Tackling Business

Commodity: Business Incorporating Art

Shifting Strata, Distant Desires

Learning Business? New Knowledge Creation with the Arts

Breaking with Routines: De-familiarising the Familiar

Exploiting Existing Sources of Knowledge

Developing New Skills: Creativity as Meta-knowledge

Concepts of Knowledge, Notions of Art

An Alternative View of Knowledge

The Concept of Dialogue

Analysis Part I

Chapter Two

Product &amp

Vision Set-up

Consensus

The Notion of Experts

Relevancy

Chapter Three

Translations: How to Convince a Business Organisation?

Translator: Research as a Third Space

Switching Values: Finding Corporate Money

Against Translation?

Model Business

Distant Relations

Analysis Part II

Chapter Four

Portraiture and Impression Management

Trusting and Wary Relationships

Latent Control: Managing and Questioning Impressions

Latent Subversion: Surfing Stereotypes and Employing New Subjectivities

Shifting Places: Changing Audiences

Chapter Five

The Rigid Lines in Your Head, or How Much Do You Believe?

Interfaces: Dangers of Infection and Strategies of Demarcation

The Risk of Interfacial Hothouses

Generating Clean Interfaces: Trojan Horses and Nudes

From Flows to Points: Shifts in Priorities

Chapter Six

The Dancing Witch

The Happy Amateur

Precious Underground

Coda

Some Concluding Words

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 18, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4438-9621-7

OCLC:

991595902