Abstract
An interview with the writer, financial technologist and author of Blank Swan, Elie Ayache by artist Roman Vasseur on the ramifications for the visual arts of Ayache's work on probability, contingency and matter in the financial markets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 107-115 |
| Journal | Journal of Visual Art Practice |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 2-3 |
| Early online date | 26 Jan 2017 |
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| Publication status | Published - 26 Jan 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Note: The article is one of a collection of articles guest edited by artist Martin Westwood under the title Headstone to Hard Drive.Impact: The article explores questions of materiality and political economy that has implications for the future of contemporary art, its objects and practices. It is understood that the arts have become the detection and transmission mechanism for a universal financialisation that renders its objects and practices into affective stories that enable the multiplication of these process of financialisation. The article explicitly asks what is the materiality of the financial markets now that it appears sovereign and detached from the underlying goods and services it once served. The placement of the article in a journal of visual arts implicitly asks if there is anything to be recouperated from Ayache's claims for a materialism of the market as opposed to a repudiation by critical arts practices of the markets seeming lack of a political economy.
Keywords
- Art and design