Art as a sign of the social: the political economy of contemporary art and the 1990s

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October 21, 2020

Art as a sign of the social: the political economy of contemporary art and the 1990s

Utopian 90s
Lars Bang Larsen
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Palle Nielsen "Modellen. En modell för ett kvalitativt samhälle", 1968

The nineties were a passage for contemporary art as we have come to know it in today’s globalised art circuit. Following the end of the Cold War, it was a decade not only marked by ruptures in historical and ideological orientation, but also characterised by continuing processes of privatisation initiated in the eighties. Concurrent with such comprehensive transvaluations of cultural concepts and practices, “the social” became an important signifier in artistic production. Speaking as someone involved in the Scandinavian art scene at the time, Lars Bang Larsen’s talk will discuss the sign of the social as it flickered in art between practice, essence and simulacrum.

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October 21, 2020
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7:00 pm
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Art as a sign of the social: the political economy of contemporary art and the 1990s
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Online
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October 21, 2020
title
Art as a sign of the social: the political economy of contemporary art and the 1990s
timetable
7:00 pm
location
Online

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Lars Bang Larsen
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Curs d’art contemporani | “Utòpics 90” | Lars Bang Larsen | MACBA
Curs d’art contemporani | “Utòpics 90” | Lars Bang Larsen | MACBA
Durant els anys noranta l’art contemporani va canviar per convertir-se en el que coneixem avui dia en el circuit artístic globalitzat. Va ser una dècada, just després de la guerra freda, marcada per les ruptures en l’orientació històrica i ideològica, però també es va caracteritzar per la continuació dels processos de privatització que havien començat durant els anys vuitanta. De manera simultània a aquestes transvaloracions tan profundes dels conceptes i les pràctiques artístics, el factor…