Introduction: Critical approaches to rentiership

This is not ‘interesting’ research: Authentically Co-Creating Participatory Action Research in UK’s Post-Covid Culture Industries

“…In relation to the participatory arts and participation in PAR beyond the UK specifically, critical scholarship into the culture industries, financialisation and rentierisation have noted the hype around the production of non-fungible tokens for different kinds of fine art and participatory cultural production (Radermecker & Ginsburgh, 2023, p. 25). As suggested above, financialisation in cultural production is also observable in the emergence of derivative markets in fine art and participatory arts projects and the recent enthusiasm for social impact bonds; the neoliberal administration of risk assessments, and the valorisation of entrepreneurial, rent seeking and speculative modes of creative research (Birch & Ward, 2023;Martin, 2015Martin, , 2014; the increased emphasis on the speculative exploitation of artificially scarce intellectual property and rent seeking cultural production; and the racial capitalist and gendered production of debt and indebtedness in the administration of precarity and austerity in the HEI, arts and cultural sectors. These forms of cultural production are all more or less directly financialised through speculative and digitised practices of rentierisation, risk management, revenue-stream diversification, and the entrepreneurialisation of culture, art, and creativity.…”