[spectre] Re: netbehaviour: Artist registers herself as company limited by shares!

[joseph mcelroy]

"In one of the decades most avant garde and honest aesthetic manoeuvres"

sell it somewhere else sister

joseph
corporate performance artists
www.corporatepa.com


replic**t wrote:

> REPLIC**T Ltd - company information.html
>
> In today's art world the role of the artist has become 
> indistinguishable from that of the corporation. Late
> capitalism has fully integrated artistic criticism and in turn artists 
> have become capitalism's ground troops. Todays art is one of 
> integration not resistance. In recognition of the extraordinary 
> possibilities and potentials of such a coupling the artist Replic**t 
> has taken the marriage of business and art to its logical end and 
> registered herself as a private company limited by shares.
>
>
> Replic**t Ltd is an attempt by the artist to use the coporate 
> environment for the dissemination of her artwork and herself. In one 
> of the decades most avant garde and honest aesthetic manoeuvres, 
> Replic**t limited sidesteps the gallery distribution system and art 
> market altogether by turning to the corporation as the ultimate 
> vehicle for the dissemination of the artist and art work.
>
>
> Replic**t Ltd's primary interest lies in exploring the potential of 
> the artist as an entity dominated by global business interests. In the 
> firm belief that art no longer has the universal value previously 
> attributed to it Replic**t Ltd wholly integrates art and artist into 
> the business domain. She uses pre-existing corporate structures and 
> strategies and locates herself within the already produced discourses 
> of commodity culture, looking at replication as a potential and 
> effective form of global hegemony.
>
> REPLIC**T LTD WILL BE LIVE ONLINE TODAY AT 3PM BST.
> IF YOU'D LIKE TO DISCUSS THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY MOVE, 
> BECOME A SHAREHOLDER OR DISCUSS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT VISIT
>
> WWW.FURTHERFIELD.ORG/FURTHERSTUIDO.