Art practices/Art Strike

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Definition

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Art strike is the conscious refusal of art production. The wikipedia article is in development see w:art strike

Manifesto

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Art strike as a practice begins with a declaration. See Gustav Metzger's "Years Without Art" (upload or type out copy here). Stewart Home plagiarised this manifesto for the 1993 art strike


Discussion

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Is art strike an art practices or an art movements or social movement or workers movement ... how else could we look at it?

Report of discussion meeting in 2010: http://www.4.alytusbiennial.com/news/340-report-from-art-strike-meeting-at-dartington-summer-solstice-2010.html

Art Strike Papers is a collection of discussions around the 1993 Art Strike.

The papers are online here:

https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/artstrik.htm

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Supercession of the Art Strike

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the Alytus Biennial organised an art strike - which lead to the congress of psychic workers and the Psychic Strike



Examples

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People Organisations Period Events Places Practices
Wikipedia:Gustav Metzger 1977-1980 New York Art Strike
Wikipedia:Stewart Home Art Strike Action Committee) 1990-1993 London
Wikipedia:Redas Diržys ABRACADABRA) 2009-2012 Alytus Art Strike, Multiple-use name
Justin McKeown SPART Action Group 2009-2012 Alytus Biennial Belfast
Denis Limonov Lipovy Tzvet 2014-2017 Moscow
Pablo Hermann OKK 2015 Psychic Strike Biennial Berlin Art Strike

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