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CREATIVE TIME: Cheryl Meeker

This entry was posted in Blog CREATIVE TIME - October 2012 and tagged Creative Time equity labor democracy fairness on by .

Choosing a term buried within one of the summit themes, inequity, I choose to isolate part of that word for the keyword “equity.” In light of the current massive world debt bomb, preceded and/or partially precipitated by the financial meltdown, derivatives explosion and off budget U.S. war spending, the term equity creates an association first with financial equities (stock equities,) home equity (depleted,) and secondarily to the concept of equity in human terms: fairness.

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Occupy as Form: Julia Bryan-Wilson

This entry was posted in Blog Occupy as Form - February 2012 and tagged labor occupy as form occupational realism worker on by .

I am currently working on a research project involving what I have termed “occupational realism,” in which artists perform labor – or more specifically, go about their normal jobs—under the rubric of art. This phrase resonates not only within long-standing debates about art in everyday life, but also evokes questions of value, embodiment, and “realism” as an art historical and economic strategy. Though I began this project well before the Occupy movement, with an article in Artforum about British artist Carey Young, the lexical overlap has prompted me to think further about what it means to be “occupied” by one’s work (emotionally, physically, mentally), or to “occupy” the space of labor as a self-conscious artistic operation.

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