Glossary of Inflationary Terms (from the dilettante to the virtuoso)
Editors: nGbK / AG Irregulars (Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca, Sara Hillnhütter, Eylem Sengezer, Olga von Schubert).
With contributions by Mercedes Bunz, Alice Creischer, Karin Harrasser/Aino Korvensyrjä, Christoph Menke, Wolfgang Müller, Nicole Karafyllis, Judith Siegmund, Christine Sun Kim, Kai van Eikels, Jan Verwoert, Uwe Wirth and others.
Occasionally, excessive use of terms is called inflation. This glossary judgments about art and work, whose linguistic valencia can be compared, in a way, with the value of money are discussed. Unlike the monetary value terms threatened inflation can not lose their purchasing power, but its meaning. In a community where knowledge, social interactions and emotions acquire commodity form, can be seen an increasing blurring of the boundaries between art and work. Attributes from the creative arts such as, for example-are a powerful diffusion in (→ creative) business worlds. Here it is noteworthy that the evaluation of the artistic event and paid work is carried out using almost the same adjectives (productive →). These concepts, employees inflationary way, are expressions of the intangible qualities acquire an exchange value and are subject to both linguistic and monetary economies (→ immaterial). The accumulation of these words shows that the ideas and qualities they are enclosed in a structure need. Whether of own or other awards, adjectives glossed here offer cheap equivalent based on conventions. What once Beuys formulated as a requirement, using words of the poet Novalis which every human being is an artist-to the Italian philosopher Paolo Virno is reason to make a diagnosis of crisis.
The German edition was published accompanying the exhibition Irregular - Economies of Deviation.
With contributions by Mercedes Bunz, Alice Creischer, Karin Harrasser/Aino Korvensyrjä, Christoph Menke, Wolfgang Müller, Nicole Karafyllis, Judith Siegmund, Christine Sun Kim, Kai van Eikels, Jan Verwoert, Uwe Wirth and others.
Occasionally, excessive use of terms is called inflation. This glossary judgments about art and work, whose linguistic valencia can be compared, in a way, with the value of money are discussed. Unlike the monetary value terms threatened inflation can not lose their purchasing power, but its meaning. In a community where knowledge, social interactions and emotions acquire commodity form, can be seen an increasing blurring of the boundaries between art and work. Attributes from the creative arts such as, for example-are a powerful diffusion in (→ creative) business worlds. Here it is noteworthy that the evaluation of the artistic event and paid work is carried out using almost the same adjectives (productive →). These concepts, employees inflationary way, are expressions of the intangible qualities acquire an exchange value and are subject to both linguistic and monetary economies (→ immaterial). The accumulation of these words shows that the ideas and qualities they are enclosed in a structure need. Whether of own or other awards, adjectives glossed here offer cheap equivalent based on conventions. What once Beuys formulated as a requirement, using words of the poet Novalis which every human being is an artist-to the Italian philosopher Paolo Virno is reason to make a diagnosis of crisis.
The German edition was published accompanying the exhibition Irregular - Economies of Deviation.
Spanish edition:
Glosario de términos inflacionarios (desde bello hasta virtuoso), Ed. Herder, Mexico-City 2014, 264 pages, Order here. |
Reviews:
Antje Stahl for Monopol
Goethe-Institut Mexico City
Antje Stahl for Monopol
Goethe-Institut Mexico City