13 documents
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 27, 2018
Category
Museums, Nature & Ecology, Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity
Subjects
Historicity & Historiography, Climate change, Extinction
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 5, 2017
Category
Economy
Subjects
Money & Finance
e-flux Criticism
Posted: January 30, 2017
Category
Religion & Spirituality, Painting
Subjects
Appropriation Art
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 19, 2016
Category
Migration & Immigration, Borders & Frontiers, Performance
Subjects
Monuments, State & Government
# 73
Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part II
Stefan Heidenreich
Continued from “ Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part I ”
Freeports are large, tax-free storage facilities that are uniquely suited to housing works of art adapted to the demands of contemporary financial markets. Because of the dominance of these markets, “freeportism” can be understood to signify the conditions of representation, production, and distribution that correspond to this dominance. The successful freeport artwork requires a strong…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2016
Category
Philosophy
Subjects
Freeports, Post-Internet, Object-Oriented Philosophies, Materialism
# 71
Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part I
Stefan Heidenreich
Works in Wooden Boxes
The Geneva Freeport can hold up to one million artworks. Recently its facilities had to be expanded due to increasing demand. The artworks end up in wooden transport boxes, stacked in rows on shelves in huge halls, where they sit and wait for their price to rise or fall, or to be shipped to an auction or to another freeport. The air temperature measures 21 degree Celsius, with exactly 55 percent humidity. 1 These are considered ideal conditions for the survival…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2016
Category
Technology, Economy
Subjects
Freeports, Post-Internet, Art Market, Art Collecting , Money & Finance
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 7, 2015
Category
Sculpture
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 4, 2015
Category
Painting
Subjects
Robotics, Commodification
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 20, 2014
Category
Technology, Film
Subjects
Media theory , Archeology, The Occult & Mysticism, Temporality, Time
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 27, 2014
Category
Feminism, Language & Linguistics, Gender
Subjects
Media Critique, Portraits
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 8, 2013
Category
Economy
Subjects
Art Market
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 24, 2013
Category
Labor & Work, Economy, Photography
Subjects
Documentary, Libraries & Archives, Germany
e-flux Criticism
Posted: May 6, 2013
Category
Internet, Feminism, Technology, Land & territory
Subjects
Robotics, Futures, Sovereignty