Posts By: Sepp Eckenhaussen

Art in Permacrisis on Radio Alhara

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 4, 2024

Starting on the 5th of September, 2024, our podcast Art in Permacrisis will be aired on Radio Alhara every first Thursday of the month between 10:00 am and 11:30 am (Bethlehem time). Radio Alhara is a Palestinian online radio station with an international, multilingual program with music, art, struggle and solidarity. Its identity is shaped [...]

The Mistake of Post-Institutional Art

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, September 2, 2024

In recent times, conversations I’m having with fellow art workers tend to spiral into fantasies of escaping the art institutions. A far-right government has taken power in the Netherlands a few months ago, and everyone expects a crackdown on counter-hegemonic culture. In anticipation of the blows to come, cultural institutions have already started self-censoring and [...]

Art in Permacrisis #4: Yazan Khalili and the Crisis Economy

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 16, 2024

This is the fourth episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, [...]

Review of ‘After Institutions’ by Karen Archey

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 3, 2024

Every few years, the question reappears: Whatever happened to institutional critique?[1] Is today’s art capable of critiquing the injustices perpetuated within the art system, without becoming entirely subsumed into the system itself? In 2020, Karen Archey, an in-house curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, confronted these questions and curated the exhibition After Institutions, exploring what [...]

Art in Permacrisis #3: Katja Praznik and Feminist Art Unions

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 1, 2024

Institute of Network Cultures · Art in Permacrisis #3: Katja Praznik and Art Work This is the third episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice [...]

Art in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Art for UBI

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 26, 2024

Institute of Network Cultures · Art in Permacrisis #2: Emanuele Braga and Art for UBI This is the second episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and [...]

The Swamps of Postart: A Report of the 2024 Konteksty Postartistic Congress @ Floating, Berlin

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 18, 2024

‘Non art is more art than art art’, Allan Kaprow claimed in 1972. He concluded: ‘Artists of the world, drop out! You have nothing to lose but your professions.’ Are we ready to move on? From the 6th until the 9th of June 2024, an international group of art workers gathered at Floating Berlin to [...]

Art in Permacrisis #1: Kuba Szreder and the Projectariat

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, May 14, 2024

This is the first episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the circulation of artworks, [...]

Precariat * Entreprecariat * Projectariat * Cybertariat * Cognitariat * Affectariat

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, April 12, 2024

From March 15 to 18, 2024, I was in Pirot (Serbia) to contribute to a seminar about international artist cooperatives organized by ULUS, the Serbian Association of Visual Artists. I was invited to run the diagnostics of precarity among art workers, as a common base understanding that can inform the process of establishing an international [...]

Six Theses towards the Liberation of Arts Philanthropy

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, April 10, 2024

Philanthropy is on the rise in the Dutch visual arts. Fat cash prizes, big-name exhibitions, large-scale renovations, spectacular public artworks, and big scandals are changing the public display of art and undermining the democratic governance of art institutions. While some have critiqued the patron's rise to power, the majority of the art world remains silent, [...]