Governmental Precarization

Problematizing Rubens’ Winter

Haven’t We Always Been Precarious?

Precarious body/images

It is necessary to promote and ensure the democratic “distribution of the sensible”.

We propose to create a voluntary Artist Solidarity Fund (ASF) in order to economically secure the cultural field and serve as a utopian model for new progressive forms of solidary politics.

Under post-Fordist conditions, the capitalisation of the immaterial work has managed to be integrated into artistic labour.

How can we break the ahistoric informatic screens in the laboratories and camps of this world that take away the eyes and parts of the bodies today as we‘re governed by opaque oceans of data?

In Walter Benjamin’s understanding, the use of allegory is
typical of Baroque Art: Man acknowledges his guilty passion for this world in the moment of its decay.