Art and social value regimes

17 important questions on Art and social value regimes

How is this a hybrid sociology?

There is a difficult relationship between art and sociology.
The singular, individual, the exception <-> the collective, social laws, conventions.

What is the research methodology, concerning dance and the visual arts?

  • Private versus public
  • Individual (ego politics) versus collective self-organization
    so the involvement of the government?
  • Art work as a material object versus 'ephemeral' performance

What is the research methodology, concerning the analyses of discursive sources?

  • Subsidies
  • Laws
  • Accounts
  • Catalogues
  • Reports of advice committees
  • Art directors, administrators of companies or art centres, museums...
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What is the research methodology, concerning participant observation?

It is informal! It can be done by speeches, exhibitions, decision-making of subsidies, receptions, openings, commissions - to have discussions.

What is the research methodology, concerning in-depth interviews?

Done with discursive sources in hand, and by going back again and again.

In which aspects is this hybridity seen?

  • Politics (subsidies)
  • Field competition and positions
  • Practical/organizational aspects
  • Artistic taste
  • Dance/art historical arguments
  • Field history
  • Symbolic capital and attractor (Beuys) --> obligatory passage point (exchange value) --> international peer group plus musem

What kind of arguments would a person make?

It depends on the personal biography.

What kind of arguments would a professor of art use?

He/she is a symbolic lightweight --> institutional arguments

What kind of arguments would a well known artist use?

He/she is a symbolic heavyweight --> artistic arguments.

What else does the argument one chooses depend on?

It depends on the position one has in a certain network at a certain time.

What is meant by context logic?

The focus would be on music because of the label?

What are the characteristics of the content logic singular regime?

Focus: Artefact
Argumentation form: Internal consistency
Time dimension: A-historical

What are the characteristics of the context logic singular regime?

Focus: Subject
Argumentation form: Auto-normative
Time dimension: Artistic biography

What are the characteristics of the content logic collective regime?

Focus: Artistic references
Argumentation form: Artistic conventions
Time dimension: History of art

What are the characteristics of the context logic collective regime?

Focus: Social referents
Argumentation form: Social conventions
Time dimension: Positional track

Will this model last forever?

It has to be updated time and again.

What about an decision, does that always just fit in one regime?

One decision can be 'translated' into different arguments. One theory is only one truth.

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