The Road to Sustainable Creativity: Mobile Autonomy beyond Auto-Mobility

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  • Pascal Gielen Professor of sociology of art and politics at the Research Center Arts in Society (Groningen University - the Netherlands and at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University - Belgium).

Keywords:

artistic autonomy, mobility, artistic biotope, post-fordism

Abstract

How can artist stay autonomous, and keep their creativity alive in the contemporary society? In this paper is stated that the individual bourgeois model of the artist is not sufficient any more to make autonomous art and to stay creative on the long run. If artists want to stay mobile and autonomous they need to build collective organizational structures, which is called ‘traveling caravan’. In the parallel historical shifts between 1970 and 2000 from liberalism to neo-liberalism, from Fordism to post-Fordism and from modern to contemporary art, artists need to build up their own artistic biotope if they need to make their work without governmental interference (subsidizes) and free market solutions. The cooperative can be seen as an interesting model to develop such a ‘mobile autonomy’.

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Author Biography

Pascal Gielen, Professor of sociology of art and politics at the Research Center Arts in Society (Groningen University - the Netherlands and at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University - Belgium).

Pascal Gielen is professor of sociology of art and politics at the Research Center Arts in Society (Groningen University - the Netherlands) and at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University - Belgium). He is editor in-chief of the international book series ‘Arts in Society’. His research focuses on the institutional context of the arts and on cultural politics. Gielen has published many books which are translated in English, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.

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Published

2015-08-25

Issue

No. 30 (2015)

Section

Artigos | Articles

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