Arts
“Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression “free as a bird,” Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, ‘You know? They’re not free: they’re fighting over bits of food.’” — John Cage The spekwork longfrom social media account tackles bullshit jobs, the force that the PMC (professional managerial class) exerts over the arts, the oversubscription of cultural labour markets and Julian Glander’s Art Sqool. Note: Amusingly, the freeware Jon downloaded to capture the videogame audio for this episode was for trial purposes. This is why the robot voice declares every few seconds ‘trial!’. Although aesthetically it exists within Glander’s idiom, it was our own inadvertent imposition. ¯_(ツ)_/¯¯ The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance by Bifo Berardi: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/uprising Bullshit Jobs in the Creative Industries by Jack Newsinger: http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2015/04/23/bullshit-jobs-in-the-creative-industries/ On the Phenomena of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber: http://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/ Against Economics by David Graeber: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/12/05/against-economics/ On (Surplus) Value in Art, Reading by Art and Labor Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/art-and-labor/id1387325985?i=1000455509423 Indiepocalypse: https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/28/17911372/there-are-too-many-video-games-what-now-indiepocalypse Art Sqool: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsfhPVaZDmQ Official website: https://artsqool.cool/ Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/953300/ART_SQOOL/ Itch.io: https://glander.itch.io/art-sqool To rent at the Brandscape you can contact us here: http://brandscape.club/contact.html Find us elsewhere: http://spek.work/ https://www.instagram.com/spekwork/ http://twitter.com/spekwork twitch.tv/SpekWork