@kaye wrote:
Stay glued to this thread for [@rwetzler] Rachel Wetzler's live coverage of tonight's launch of e-flux journal 73, starting at 7:30 pm EST
The panel, featuring Kari Altmann, Julieta Aranda, Hayal Pozanti, and Brad Troemel, will also be live broadcast here
Freeportism as Style and Ideology?
May 20, 7:30 pm EST
at e-flux and your home screens
The freeport method of art storage presents its critics with a problem. Is it something new? Or something old? What could be less surprising than an international aristocracy hiding treasures in a cave someplace? Is thinking in terms of freeportism a movement towards emancipation, or away from it?
Following Hito Steyerl, Stefan Heidenreich argues in “Freeportism as Style and Ideology” that the freeport might be a new mode of representation, replacing the one that ruled from the end of the Bretton Woods era up until the Great Recession. Like other such modes, freeportism has a value-form, post-internet art, that is optimized for contemporary accumulation, and an ideology, speculative realism, that attempts to transform its novel configuration of forces and relations into a new metaphysics.
To celebrate the launch of issue 73 of e-flux journal, which includes part two of Heidenreich’s essay, we are convening a panel to discuss the problems and possibilities of freeportism at the conceptual and institutional levels.
Below: @rwetzler covers the panel between Kari Altmann, Julieta Aranda (via Skype), Hayal Pozanti, and Brad Troemel
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