New strategies for old practices Bishop, Cameron 2016, New strategies for old practicesContemporary publics: shifting boundaries in new media, technology and culture, Palgrave MacMillan, London, Eng., pp.97-113, doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-53324-1. Title New strategies for old practices Author(s) Bishop, Cameron Title of book Contemporary publics: shifting boundaries in new media, technology and culture Publication date 2016 Start page 97 End page 113 Total pages 17 Publisher Palgrave MacMillan Place of Publication London, Eng. Keyword(s) profanation detournement counter practice museum criticism contemporary art play spectacle commodity spectacle public art Summary The concepts, ideas and material experiments that much contemporary art engages with rarely examine the commercial realities of the system that supports its exhibition. From the free labour of interns and artists to the 50 percent commission cut taken by gallery owners, contemporary art practice is trapped in a paradox in which it is free to critique its own histories and those outside the gallery, but rarely analyses its own politics of production. In this chapter I discuss two recent art projects in Melbourne that work to undermine the neo-liberal economics of the art gallery and public space. In discussing these strategies as tools for resistance I advance a purpose for art that is not discipline specific and trapped in its own spectacular and self-referential game – as witnessed in the gallery and the academy. Using Giorgio Agamben, McKenzie Wark and Guy Debord to think through and apply strategies of profanation and détournement I argue for an art that operates as counter-practice, integrated with life but testing new practices and ways of being. It is in this spirit I appropriate space, form and image to practise alternative lines of exchange; a practice that invokes a slow infuriation, a swarm, that resists the total neo-liberalisation of the gallery, the academy and public space. ISBN 9781137533241 Language eng DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53324-1 Field of Research 190103 Art Theory 190104 Visual Cultures Socio Economic Objective 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter ERA Research output type B Book chapter Copyright notice ©2016, The Author Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30086525 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 07 Oct 2016, 09:35:52 EST Sat, 08 Oct 2016, 04:01:53 EST Wed, 05 Apr 2017, 06:02:52 EST Wed, 05 Apr 2017, 09:29:29 EST Tue, 20 Jun 2017, 16:29:59 EST Wed, 21 Jun 2017, 08:37:37 EST Wed, 21 Jun 2017, 08:38:17 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 11 Abstract Views  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 07 Oct 2016, 09:35:52 EST

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