Tag: trabajo cultural

  • Art that raises the rent

    Art that raises the rent

    The scene repeats in many cities and is almost invariably recounted in the same manner, as a positive development. A neglected neighbourhood, characterised by vacant premises and low rents, begins to attract artists' studios, small galleries, a festival, and a café with character. The neighbourhood 'revives'. Cultural supplements celebrate the transformation. And a few years later, the...

  • Working for the love of art

    Working for the love of art

    La expresión es tan común que ya no la oímos: trabajar por amor al arte. Significa, literalmente, trabajar gratis. Y describe con una precisión incómoda cómo se sostiene buena parte del sector cultural, incluido el trabajo de muchas fundaciones. No lo digo desde fuera: lo digo desde una organización con presupuesto ajustado, que conoce de…

  • Politics is not in the painting

    Politics is not in the painting

    On why the critique of contemporary art is played out in infrastructure and not in the message. There is a very widespread, and very comfortable, idea regarding what renders art political: that it is so by virtue of its subject. A work would be political if it denounces, if it represents a conflict, if it takes a side, if it carries…

  • The impact we claim to have

    The impact we claim to have

    Hay una frase que el mundo de la cultura repite sobre sí mismo con una convicción que rara vez se examina: el arte transforma vidas, la cultura es motor de cambio social, la mediación incluye, cohesiona, repara. La he dicho yo. Está, con otras palabras, en la misión de la fundación que presido. Y precisamente…

  • Cooling the room, warming the world

    Cooling the room, warming the world

    On the paradox of preserving art on a warming planet, and who can afford it. Imagine the perfect room. Twenty-one degrees, fifty per cent relative humidity, without a single fluctuation. The work hangs in ideal conditions, protected from light, from dust, from time. For decades, that stability was the unquestionable ideal of the…

  • The festival that does not fit in the frame

    The festival that does not fit in the frame

    On experience converted into content, and the rest that escapes it. There is a question that the cultural industry has already answered without formulating it: the contemporary festival is not designed solely to be experienced, but to circulate. Recent research states this bluntly. The consumer of experiences seeks, beyond the moment, shareable narrative material…

  • The price of the model

    The price of the model

    Sobre el trabajo cultural en el dispositivo de la IA generativa En 2019, la antropóloga Mary L. Gray formuló una hipótesis que ha envejecido bien y mal a la vez. Su libro Ghost Work, escrito con Siddharth Suri, describía la economía oculta de microtrabajadores que clasifican imágenes, moderan contenido y etiquetan datos para que los…

  • Art, productive time and material survival

    Art, productive time and material survival

    Resumen ejecutivo La historia del arte puede leerse, en buena medida, como una historia de la organización social del tiempo creativo. Antes de ser “genio”, el artista necesita duración, concentración, materiales, espacio, mediaciones y una forma de subsistencia. En la larga duración histórica, ese tiempo ha sido financiado por regímenes muy distintos —culto religioso, corte, nobleza,…

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