Trajectories: How to Reconcile the Careerist Mentality with Our Impending Doom (Part 3)
by Ellie Harrison >From September 2008 - June 2010, Ellie Harrison undertook a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of Art. The thesis published forms one of the major outcomes of her research during this period. This is part 3, of four weekly articles to be published on Furtherfield. Part 3, here: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=395 Drawing together the diagnoses which recur throughout the literature of the moment, such as Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Fisher 2009), First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (Zizek 2009a) and The Coming Insurrection (The Invisible Committee 2009) alongside the key suggestions, ideas and solutions from these two manifestos, our 'plan of action' begins to materialise. In the spirit of Pascal's famous 'wager' (Hajek 2008) the plan aims to cover all bases: our active and / or passive responses to the situation. Encouraging the belief that we might still be able to use our roles as artists to incite the radical change to our societal structure (in the art world and globally) needed to avert climate catastrophe, whilst simultaneously developing philosophies for coping with our lives - finding meaning and happiness - should our active response fail. The seven points below offer a set of guidelines for rethinking our lives, which should act as the starting points for redefining our roles as artists and thinking about how it might be possible to reconcile 'the careerist mentality' into which we have been inculcated with the possibility of 'our impending doom'. ————> Other Info: A living, breathing, thriving networked neighbourhood... We are on identi.ca & Twitter http://identi.ca/furtherfield http://twitter.com/furtherfield Other reviews,articles,interviews http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php Furtherfield – online media arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery – physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Netbehaviour – an open email list community engaged in the process of sharing and actively evolving critical approaches, methods and ideas focused around contemporary networked media arts practice. http://www.netbehaviour.org Join Furtherfield.org on Resonance 104.4FM - weekly Broadcasts http://www.furtherfield.org/resonancefm.php Furtherfield Blog – shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio – real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org/x.html Furthernoise – an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of innovative cross genre music and sound art for the information & interaction of the public and artists alike. http://www.furthernoise.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- Olga P Massanet -------------------------- www.ungravitational.net virtualfirefly.wordpress.com www.vimeo.com/ungravitational _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
