18 Uhr c. t. am IFK (freier Eintritt; Vortrag in englischer Sprache)
In recent times, publicly subsidised art galleries and museums, like other public-sector organisations, have been subjected to immense pressure to operate more like private businesses, which is a particular feature of the transition from organised to neoliberal capitalism. Jim McGuigan’s lecture looks at a specific development in the art world that takes the neoliberal usurpation of the public sector in the cultural field further and, in this case, literally replaces it: the Saatchi phenomenon and the promotion (and sale) of cool art in general.
Jim McGuigan is Professor of Cultural Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK, and IFK_Senior Fellow. In the past he has worked for the Arts Council of Great Britain and BBC Television. He has published several books, most recently Cultural Analysis (2010) and Cool Capitalism (2009). He has served on research panels for the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the European Commission.