{"id":1043,"date":"2012-12-13T23:12:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T22:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2012-12-13T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T22:12:16","slug":"run-of-the-mill-a-brief-history-of-contemporary-art-production-glenn-adamson-and-julia-bryan-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/1043","title":{"rendered":"Run of the Mill: A Brief History of Contemporary Art Production, Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson, in the essay Run of the Mill: A Brief History of Contemporary Art\u00c2\u00a0Production for\u00c2\u00a0Counter-Production part 3<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Generali Foundation)\u00c2\u00a0write about Letters 2004-2006<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Art today still negotiates global networks of power, and it does so through systems of\u00c2\u00a0production even more widely distributed than the one Vallance put into motion. The current\u00c2\u00a0context, of course, is different. As in so many other areas of art-making, artists today have\u00c2\u00a0much greater self-awareness when it comes to involving others in their work. Cultural Ties\u00c2\u00a0seems frankly naive in comparison with a recent work by the artist Martin John Callanan,\u00c2\u00a0entitled Letters 2004\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2006. The premise was similar. Callanan sent a typed note to various\u00c2\u00a0political and religious leaders, reading only, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I respect your authority\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When will it end?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0The responses he got are comparable to those Vallance elicited\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmainly form letters, as\u00c2\u00a0well as a few personalized notes (usually either baffled, intrigued, or both). Yet if Vallance \u00c2\u00a0extended an offer of universal friendship, Callanan instead addressed shadowy realms of\u00c2\u00a0power, expecting and getting no adequate reply. This shift from optimism to resignation\u00c2\u00a0captures a general change in tone when it comes to artistic production. In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0hypernetworked society, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cultural ties\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are all too evident; connection itself has become a\u00c2\u00a0primary mechanism of late capital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson, in the essay Run of the Mill: A Brief History of Contemporary Art\u00c2\u00a0Production for\u00c2\u00a0Counter-Production part 3\u00c2\u00a0(Generali Foundation)\u00c2\u00a0write about Letters 2004-2006: Art today still negotiates global networks of power, and it does so through systems of\u00c2\u00a0production even more widely distributed than the one Vallance put into motion. The current\u00c2\u00a0context, of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[1505,1511,1510,1506,1504,261,1513,1521,1522,1502,1512,1516,1518,1515,1519,1517,1514,1508,1520,1509],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-output","category-letters","tag-art-production","tag-art-today","tag-artistic-production","tag-brief-history","tag-bryan-wilson","tag-contemporary-art","tag-form-letters","tag-friendship","tag-generali-foundation","tag-glenn-adamson","tag-global-networks","tag-optimism","tag-premise","tag-religious-leaders","tag-reply","tag-resignation","tag-self-awareness","tag-shadowy-realms","tag-ties","tag-vallance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}