Art practices/Art Strike

Definition

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

Manifesto

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

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

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

Examples

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

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