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Cortez 2y ago

I attended a new Art exhibition in Manchester today with the theme of Economics.

Goldin + Senneby produce work that probe the concealed operations of the financial world.

Here they reimagined the art museum as a central bank. (Which I rather enjoyed then doing) Observing that a museums stored collection is their financial asset that lies dormant. So they then took this stored asset and printed, using a printing press as many copies of it as they could. A quantitive easing of their prized asset and of the museums economy.

Museums are central banks.

#Artstr #art club.

If you get a chance please got and see this exhibition.

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mike 2y ago

Interesting. And may be there soon enough to take a look. Always love to be surprised and proved wrong, but have an intuition there might be a little too much reductionism here for me. Something deeply and ambivalently complex in the world caricatured as a metaphor that helps illustrate a simplified idea about something else…? I know, I know, lots can work through that. Just never personally been happy there…

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Cortez 2y ago

I like this angle because to be totally honest something didn’t sit right with me but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I was taken more by the idea itself.

I’m starting to think it was the Gallery venue and this adds to it wasn’t rebellious enough. Does it have to be this way? Other parts of the show made me feel empty. Breaking down blockbuster art shows.

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mike 2y ago

I haven’t seen the work, so have no basis or right to comment specifically. It was just a ‘smell’. I’ve been doing this a long time. And in the end it’s what the work really is and does, not what it’s about, that flies. Working with the realities and baggage of the context should be a problem. But finding a way to talk about something, isn’t the same as finding a way to manifest and do what you’re talking about…

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mike 2y ago

That middle sentence should have read ‘working with the realities and baggage of the context shouldn’t be a problem’…

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Cortez 2y ago

This is also why people should view it. For me the idea was more interesting and important than the actual work itself but then without it, it doesn’t have meaning. It’s in the public domain and that gave me a little bit of hope.

This is why we #Artstr

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MKD Podcast 2y ago

thats a really cool theme