Art and Labor
A podcast focusing on the on-going struggle to survive as an art or cultural worker
Tag: communism
172 – Nightcore over Hyperpop
Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 1:27:37 | Recorded on September 15, 2022
A message to the people of Bushwig: BREAK THE CHAIN, ANNEX MASPETH. What is this episode? If I recall correctly we discuss how capitalists attempt to resolve what communist art theorist Adam Buttrick calls "the Bad Vibes Contradiction" through crypto, AI, Canva, and other data vultures in the culture industries. Chelsea Manning DJs Nightcore, not Hyperpop, one is the people's algorithm, the other belongs to the music business. What's our role in automation, in our own displacement? The prison will not absorb us, we are building up to a break.
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Episode 102 – Can We Abolish the Art World?
Episode 102 - Can We Abolish the Art World?
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This is (almost) the dawning of the age of Aquarius, how red will that dawn be? OK's been a little fixated on China, would a new global superpower be beneficial to international communist movements? We try to focus back in the art and labor realm with the 3rd part of the Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber's piece for e-flux. How can we build enough power to meaningfully transform the art world as we know it?? If you like the podcast and want more, please consider supporting us: https://www.patreon.com/artandlabor. Follow us on twitter and instagram. You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com. Please reach out to join the discord for Lucia's school "Constructing the Real" Please write us a review on Apple podcasts or whatever other platforms!!
Another Art World, Part 3: Policing and Symbolic Order: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/113/360192/another-art-world-part-3-policing-and-symbolic-order/
I Want to Believe Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340777/i-want-to-believe/
Chuang journal: https://twitter.com/chuangcn
The Pro-Independence Left vs The Pro-Unification Left in the Sinophone World: https://newbloommag.net/2015/05/19/pro-independence-left-vs-pro-unification/
OK China thread: https://twitter.com/0KF0X/status/1327320981388619776
Episode 60 – Marathon Man with Leslie Lee III
Episode 60 - Marathon Man with Leslie Lee III
We're joined by podcast legend Leslie Lee III (@leslieleeiii) to discuss the 1976 classic film Marathon Man. Dustin Hoffman plays a young graduate student roped into a high-stakes plot involving US intelligence agents, sadistic Nazis, and millions of dollars in gems. We explore the story's underlying pro-communist elements and artistic motifs. It's Struggle Session x Art and Labor!! Get some!! If you like the podcast and want more, please consider supporting us: https://www.patreon.com/artandlabor. Follow us on twitter and instagram. You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com
Episode 49 – Art Workers' Inquiry
Episode 49 - Art Workers' Inquiry
Hey folks! Ding dong Kanders is dead (if only), we catch up on the news we missed, and finally dig into Red Bloom Collective's Art Workers' Inquiry. It's a super robust survey, we encourage everyone to take it themselves here. We didn't end up having time to complete the second part of the inquiry, but we hope to finish it up soon (perhaps with some of the folks who created it). In the meantime check out our bonus episode where we do a quiz to see if we're related to aliens. If you like the podcast and want more, please consider supporting us: https://www.patreon.com/artandlabor (if you support us on drip, please switch over). Follow us on twitter and instagram. You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com
READING – Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art
READING - Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art
We've decided to start reading art manifestos in full and providing light commentary. First up, of course, is 1938's Towards a Free Revolutionary Art ghostwritten by Leon Trotsky, signed by Diego Rivera and André Breton. Trotsky was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution, he was famously forced to flee to Mexico. Thanks to funding from the American communist party, he was able to stay near Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but was eventually assassinated there. The manifesto denounces both fascism and Stalinism, and is a seminal text to the history of Muralism and Surrealism/Dada.
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For more robust context check out Bad Art World's intro to Revolutionary Art: http://badartworld.net/index.php/2018/02/01/an-introduction-to-the-manifesto-towards-a-free-revolutionary-art/
The theme song of this episode is "Media" from The Ann Steel Album
Episode 12 – Art as Agency (and The Dirtbag Left)
Episode 12 - Art as Agency (and The Dirtbag Left)
We yelled at the mayor! This episode is a response to a recent Chapo Trap House interview about music, identity politics, and activism (listen here: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/unlocked-amber-interviews-aaron-j-leonard). We want to challenge the podcast left to do better coalition building, and to think more critically about art's potential in revolution. We encourage folks to consider Rivera's Manifesto: Towards a Free Revolutionary Art, and will be posting another episode where we read the whole thing.
Bad Art World's intro to Revolutionary Art: http://badartworld.net/index.php/2018/02/01/an-introduction-to-the-manifesto-towards-a-free-revolutionary-art/
Yelled at the mayor: https://twitter.com/0KF0X/status/1032011814949801984
Episode 10 – Post Cold War Art and the CIA
Episode 10 - Post Cold War Art and the CIA
The department of defense, the CIA, and the FBI have all had a hand in influencing art, culture, and academia. We discuss the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Marvel movies, Rockefeller, modernism, futurist fascism, and Mexican muralism. Are you bummed about MFAs and institutional partnerships with banks? Us too buddy. If you like us please consider donating for bonus writing, memes, and art: https://d.rip/art-and-labor
Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy https://www.e-flux.com/journal/21/67696/politics-of-art-contemporary-art-and-the-transition-to-post-democracy/
How Iowa Flattened Literature (With CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers) https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Iowa-Flattened-Literature/144531
The CIA's abstract art collection: https://hyperallergic.com/294142/a-visit-to-the-the-cias-secret-abstract-art-collection/
Movies funded by the state: https://twitter.com/BootsRiley/status/1025779683541934080
^backed up by this Freedom of Information Act: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hollywood-cia-washington-dc-films-fbi-24-intervening-close-relationship-a7918191.html
Marvel's "cancelled" gun manufacturer sponsor: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x835p/northrop-grumman-paid-marvel-to-turn-the-military-contractor-into-a-superhero-avengers
The Pentagon and Hollywood: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/421064-pentagon-hollywood-propaganda-dod/
Episode 8 – Sorry to Bother You
Episode 8 - Sorry to Bother You
We saw Sorry to Bother You and it was THE BEST MOVIE and THE ONLY MOVIE! We celebrate Chairman Boots Riley's new masterpiece. We try to process the race and gender roles depicted in the film, but we're way more excited to do a working class analysis. We're now offering bonus materials on our Drip page! Feel free to skip the first 15 minutes of this ep that is just an ad for it. If you like us please consider donating for bonus writing, memes, and art: https://d.rip/art-and-labor
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/27/17620246/boots-riley-sorry-to-bother-you-history-of-the-left-interview
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/17/boots_riley_on_how_his_hit
Art and Labor is a podcast for art workers trying understand their place in the brutal capitalist systems of power. We chronicle the stories of organizing and social justice within the arts. We center the human cost of the "art world" and advocate for fair labor practices for artists, assistants, fabricators, docents, interns, registrars, janitors, writers, editors, curators, guards, performers, and anyone doing work for art & cultural institutions.
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Art and Labor is hosted by O.K. Fox, Lucia Love, and Sarah Crowe.
Our theme music is "Man! Let's Have Fun" by Icy Spicy Leoncie
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