{"id":2101,"date":"2017-09-05T09:14:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T23:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acuads.com.au\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2017-09-18T13:57:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T03:57:51","slug":"acuads-conference-keynote-speaker-tai-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acuads.com.au\/news-events\/acuads-conference-keynote-speaker-tai-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"ACUADS Conference Keynote Speaker: T’ai Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

ACUADS is thrilled that T’ai Smith will be Keynote Speaker for the 2017 ACUADS Conference:\u00a0Value<\/em>. The abstract\u00a0for T’ai Smith’s presentation is below, and please\u00a0follow the link to this fantastic video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We can’t wait for the 28th & 29th- hope to see you then at the ANU School of Art & Design!<\/p>\n

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Redressing Value: Capital\u2019s (and Art\u2019s) Fashion Cycles<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

T\u2019ai Smith <\/strong><\/p>\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n

Art History, Visual Art and Theory, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver<\/p>\n

The notion of value is a contentious term in the field of political economy, stemming largely from the unresolved theories of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx. As this concept has been applied to art, both value and art have suffered further misprisions. It is not just that art is unlike other commodities; that art\u2019s value is qualitative, not quantitative, as many artists and Marxist critics contend; or that its value is largely symbolic, as Pierre Bourdieu notes; or that, as David Beech argues in Art and Value<\/em> (2015), art\u2019s relationship to capital is \u201cexceptional.\u201d (Traded in an art market whose emergence is rooted in 17th<\/sup>-century mercantilism, Beech points out, art\u2019s value does not come as surplus from the factory owner\u2019s exploitation of productive labour.)<\/p>\n

Rather, I posit, misprisions about art and value stem in part from its overlap, after the mid-19th<\/sup> century, with a different sector of the economy\u2014the not-quite-industrial mode of production of fashion. At this moment, the art world\u2019s \u201cproducts\u201d were increasingly mediated by the temporal logic of the fashion cycle\u2014that is, as design, marketing, and speed catalyzed the value and brand of the so-called avant-garde.<\/p>\n

This paper will begin by reexamining the language and temporality of value identified by Marx in several passages from Capital,<\/em> Vol. 1, <\/em>and also look to scholars, like David Harvey, who have unpacked his terminology (use value, exchange value, and the value form). Further, by considering this language alongside the history of fashion\u2019s temporal modes and means of readymade production since the 1860s, I seek to reposition the (social) relationship between time, work, and value in creative practice today.<\/p>\n

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ACUADS is thrilled that T’ai Smith will be Keynote Speaker for the 2017 ACUADS Conference:\u00a0Value. The abstract\u00a0for T’ai Smith’s presentation is below, and please\u00a0follow the link to this fantastic video. We can’t wait for the 28th & 29th- hope to see you then at the ANU School of Art & Design!   Redressing Value: Capital\u2019s (and Art\u2019s) Fashion Cycles\u00a0 T\u2019ai Smith Associate Professor Art History, Visual Art and Theory, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver The notion of value is a contentious term in the field of political economy, stemming largely from the unresolved theories of Adam Smith, David Ricardo,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[]}},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","qubely_landscape":"","qubely_portrait":"","qubely_thumbnail":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

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