http://news.absurd.services/taxonomy/term/391/all en http://news.absurd.services/competition-ideas-rethinking-social-and-economic-conditions-art-0 <p>A Paris-based organization is hosting a "competition of ideas," the object of which is to rethink the social and economic conditions of art, explicitly breaking with twentieth-century conventions. The winner gets 10 000 euros -- not bad; both the winner and the runner-up get the expanded (100 page) version of their initial three-page proposal published. Bear in mind that this is how a hitherto unknown proto-blogger by the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau got started (winning a competition for his <em>Discourse on the Arts and Sciences</em>)... For funding reasons, it's open only to residents of the European Union. But as n.e.w.s. is registered in Europe, and collectively authored proposals are encouraged, I figured that we might take a multi-handed stab at rethinking the material conditions of art. Wouldn't it be a boost for our collective energies if we won? And even if somehow we didn't, we would at least have cured our twentieth-century hangover and gone some way to creating a twenty-first century We. Beyond that, I would encourage everyone using and reading n.e.w.s. to take part. Deadline: 15 November 2008.</p> <p><a href="http://news.absurd.services/competition-ideas-rethinking-social-and-economic-conditions-art-0" target="_blank">read more</a></p> artworld economies essay ideas Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:38:00 +0000 Stephen Wright 221 at http://news.absurd.services