The Artist of the Future
Gary Zhexi Zhang
On practices merging art and business.
"Indeed, the notional artist who offers incisive critiques and radical visions has been partially superseded by the management consultant – mercenaries hired in to tell C-level executives just how bad they’ve been – and the startup founder – today’s heroic ideal of the starving entrepreneur, burning out in pursuit of cultural ‘disruption’. For artists, negotiating this terrain simultaneously as creative, critical and economic agents demands a comparable degree of cynicism, agility and entrepreneurial plasticity."
Called "cultural realpolitik".
The stake is: "For Diakron, Primer is a way to test the elasticity of artistic autonomy without sheltering it from other forces in society, instead seeking confluences with the organisation: “No one would fail to see the good we do here”"
On practices merging art and business.
"Indeed, the notional artist who offers incisive critiques and radical visions has been partially superseded by the management consultant – mercenaries hired in to tell C-level executives just how bad they’ve been – and the startup founder – today’s heroic ideal of the starving entrepreneur, burning out in pursuit of cultural ‘disruption’. For artists, negotiating this terrain simultaneously as creative, critical and economic agents demands a comparable degree of cynicism, agility and entrepreneurial plasticity."
Called "cultural realpolitik".
The stake is: "For Diakron, Primer is a way to test the elasticity of artistic autonomy without sheltering it from other forces in society, instead seeking confluences with the organisation: “No one would fail to see the good we do here”"
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