Lecture series Institiute for Art Criticism
Do it yourself. Deskilling and Reskilling in the Digital Techno Age
Albert Oehlen: Dr Ö and the three million ???
Monday, 12. June 2017, 19.00, Aula
The lecture takes place within the frame work of the lectures-series, which is conceptualized by Isabelle Graw and revolves around the question of artistic skills in a digital world. What do they actually consist of? While it always mattered how an artist performs herself since the Modern Age, it seems that the „Auftritt des Künstlers“ (Beatrice von Bismarck), namely, her public staging of herself, has become increasingly important in a Media Society. Has the modeling of her „personality“ turned into a skill that is required from her? Or should one rather argue that artistic practices still represent other competences, attitudes and ways of life that question the ideal of an entrepreneurial self? What have traditional skills been replaced by?
It seems that the deskilling of the arts that is usually associated with the „Duchamp-effect“ and post war practices allowed for a reskilling that is currently quite popular in the artworld. Is it a historical necessity that deskilling entails reskilling? Historically speaking, „deskilling“ was a male privilege in the 1950´s and 1960´s. Many male artists opted for anti-subjective aleatory procedures that rejected skills, whereas women artists practiced another form of deskilling in the 1970´s by reintroducing formerly devaluated, „female skills“ into their work. Could one argue, at least in retrospect, that it is precisely these lower or soft skills associated with the sphere of reproduction that are have risen to the status of a valuable resource in our New Economy?
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Albert Oehlen: Dr Ö and the three million ???
Lecture 12 June 2017, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main