Towards a Manifesto for the Liberated Image
This paper discusses the value of collaborative practices of image-making in relation to technological change and the mode of capitalist reproduction. It situates the discussion of collaboration in the context of a tradition of anti-capitalist radical image-making and what forms of continuity and extensions it might have in contemporary media and education practices. The discussion between the authors starts out from and goes on to review the provocation that photography is no longer capable of acting as a progressive political medium because networked computation is the default of the image. Against this emphasis, the recent “collaborative turn” in art practice and practice-as-research has been cited as a positive critical path for photography. The paper discusses collaboration in terms of neo-liberal institutional incorporation and as a mode of resistance, the former maintaining the commodification of knowledge, whilst the latter points to the possibility of a liberated knowledge paradigm, new curricula and a reorganisation of our universities. To this end, the paper puts together an outline of a manifesto for collaboration. The paper draws upon the recent published work of both authors.
Funding
Partial Recall: British Art Remembers Rave, 1994-2018 : PAUL MELLON CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN BRITISH ART | 03-2020-MID/02
History
Publication status
- Published
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- Published version
Journal
Membrana – Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual CultureISSN
2463-8501Publisher
Membrana InstitutePublisher URL
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Issue
1Volume
8Department affiliated with
- Art History Publications
Institution
University of SussexFull text available
- Yes
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- Yes