Berry, Josephine. 2015. Everyone is Not an Artist: Autonomous Art Meets the Neoliberal City. New Formations, 84/85, pp. 20-40. ISSN 0950-2378 [Article]

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The article makes a reading of how it is precisely through autonomous art’s universal exoneration of life (encapsulated by Joseph Beuy’s slogan ‘everyone an artist!’) that it becomes amenable to the opposite use: a propaganda tool for gentrification by which housing can be withdrawn and life rendered naked and exposed to the relentless forces of the market. In this way, the intricate and fundamental relationship between biopolitics and autonomous art is exposed.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.398/NEWF:84/85.01.2015
Keywords:	Control society, neoliberal regeneration, site-specific art, milieu, Michel Foucault
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Centre for Cultural Studies (1998-2017)
Dates:	Date Event 2015 Published
Item ID:	16901
Date Deposited:	18 Feb 2016 22:40
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:14
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16901

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