Art and resilience: The spatial practices of making a resilient artistic career in London

Pasquinelli, Cecilia; Sjöholm, Jenny

doi:10.1016/j.ccs.2015.04.001

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“…In understanding post-crisis austerity as an opportunity to reconstruct the cultural sector in a new dynamic environment of constant adaptation to change and shock, we argue that resilience does nothing to challenge or resist neoliberal capitalism; indeed, resilience (perhaps unintentionally) reinforces its logic. In this way our argument complicates and stands in distinction to those who see resilience among artists as offering a form of resistence to neoliberal capitalism (e.g., Pasquinelli and Sjöholm 2015). While romantic resilience is clearly an important part of an artistic identity that helps to sustain practitioners, we do not find evidence of it as a resource of resistance to neoliberal crisis or the precarity of artistic labour.…”

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Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism

Newsinger

Serafini

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia. This article is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural policy and practice under conditions of austerity. It is based on an extensive engagement with literature, an analysis of cultural policy discourse and qualitative data drawn from 23 in-depth interviews with freelance cultural practitioners. The findings contribute to the literature on the politics of resilience in policy and society and the effects of austerity on culture. We adapt Robin James’ concept of resilience to show how arts leaders and practitioners generate performative narratives that seek to publicly represent their capacity to adapt to austerity, and we explore the different versions of resilience thinking that these narratives mobilise. We argue that resilience in cultural policy and practice unwittingly produces a discursive surplus which becomes reinvested in institutions, providing subsequent justification for the processes of post-crisis austerity itself.

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Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism

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Serafini

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…In turn, research on artistic entrepreneurship in other countries has usually been conducted at most on a metropolitan level, rarely including intraurban patterns. If so, it most often pertained to a selected discipline, a particular creative sector branch such as visual arts (Pasquinelli, Sjöholm 2015) and music (Aggestam 2007;Scott 2012), traditional types of artistic entrepreneurial activities (e.g. art galleries, music and theatre venues), larger endeavours linked with creative industries or a single urban area (Heebels, van Aalst 2010).…”

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“…art galleries, music and theatre venues), larger endeavours linked with creative industries or a single urban area (Heebels, van Aalst 2010). It likewise tended to focus on collective artistic endeavours or strategic usage of virtual space, especially for the purpose of networking, gaining tacit knowledge, professional identity creation (Leadbeater, oakley 1999;Pasquinelli, Sjöholm 2015) or instrumental uses of culture in the processes of urban regeneration (Montgomery 2007;Kim 2016).…”

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Economic and spatial strategies of artists as cultural entrepreneurs

Murzyn‐Kupisz

Działek

2019

Quaestiones Geographicae

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The text aims to explore the economic and spatial strategies followed by artists who run micro-firms. The authors analyse results of a qualitative study of independent artist enterprises in Kraków. It reveals that motivations for artistic entrepreneurship are diverse and foremost linked with the need to overcome challenges artists experience in the labour market and in the market for cultural goods and services. Different strategies translate into particular location choices as well as varied visibility of such firms in urban space.

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“…79-110), cultural heritage (Radoine 2013, p. 258), and citizens' critical role through active agency and self-organisation (Berkes and Ross 2013; Desouza and Flanery 2013; Clarke and Mayer 2017) along with youth civic engagement and action (Dolan 2012). Although approaches focusing on spatial practices for making "a resilient artistic career" (Pasquinelli and Sjöholm 2015), on economic renewal and transformation of cities of art (Lazzeretti 2012), or as self-sustaining structures of cultural economy (Pratt 2015) could be questioned to some extent because of their relatively limited approaches, these emerging studies contribute to the growing understanding of the intricate interdependence of culture, art, human agency, and urban resilience. More importantly, they indicate how such capabilities that demonstrate the significance of culture building towards urban resilience are not to be reserved for (in)tangible elements of the past.…”

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Urban hacking: the versatile forms of cultural resilience in Hong Kong

Valjakka

2019

Urban Des Int

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The current understanding of urban resilience focuses on economic, environmental, and social responses. While the significance of art in enhancing social resistance has been acknowledged, the full potential of (un)authorised artistic and creative practices in initiating and strengthening the strategies of urban resilience is not yet recognised. Based on extensive fieldwork in 2012-2017, this paper delineates how urban hacking challenges the sociopolitical and spatio-aesthetic dynamics of the urban public space in Hong Kong as a form of cultural resilience that can contribute to a more holistic understanding of urban resilience. The diversity of urban hacking is indicated in an analysis of selected case studies of urban knitting and digital hacking that question the prevailing perceptions emphasising hacking as a method of illegal and arbitrary destruction. I posit that varied forms of urban hacking have a growing power to raise awareness of sociopolitical issues, enhance solidarity, and renegotiate space for new strategies and subjectivities aiming for more versatile co-authorship of the city. Keywords Urban hacking • Urban resilience • Cultural resilience • Civic engagement • Co-authorship of the city • Artistic and creative practices

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Art and resilience: The spatial practices of making a resilient artistic career in London

Cited by 31 publications

References 34 publications

Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism

Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism

Economic and spatial strategies of artists as cultural entrepreneurs

Urban hacking: the versatile forms of cultural resilience in Hong Kong

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