Affective Iconoclasm: Codes of Labour as a Human Characteristic
This text argues that a number of recent works of contemporary art have developed an anthropomorphised code to signal “humanness.” Primary within this code is representations of labour, which the artworks connect to mimetic or realist stylisation as well as to the history of image production and oft...
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| description | This text argues that a number of recent works of contemporary art have developed an anthropomorphised code to signal “humanness.” Primary within this code is representations of labour, which the artworks connect to mimetic or realist stylisation as well as to the history of image production and often specifically Western art-making. It elaborates this thesis with regards to recent videos by Pierre Huyghe and Sidsel Meineche Hansen, and at a critique of social media labour in a lecture-performance by Jesse Darling, which all draw a link between human and non-human subjectivities and economic productivity. In focusing on different examples of nonhuman likenesses, the text also uses primatology to suggest that the colonial relationship between labour and species and racial hierarchies continues to colour representations of labour today. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb086feac32b442380fab08470d15e522022-12-21T21:49:07ZengDe GruyterOpen Cultural Studies2451-34742018-01-011154154810.1515/culture-2017-0051culture-2017-0051Affective Iconoclasm: Codes of Labour as a Human CharacteristicGronlund Melissa0independent scholar, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThis text argues that a number of recent works of contemporary art have developed an anthropomorphised code to signal “humanness.” Primary within this code is representations of labour, which the artworks connect to mimetic or realist stylisation as well as to the history of image production and often specifically Western art-making. It elaborates this thesis with regards to recent videos by Pierre Huyghe and Sidsel Meineche Hansen, and at a critique of social media labour in a lecture-performance by Jesse Darling, which all draw a link between human and non-human subjectivities and economic productivity. In focusing on different examples of nonhuman likenesses, the text also uses primatology to suggest that the colonial relationship between labour and species and racial hierarchies continues to colour representations of labour today.https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0051primatologyposthumanlabourpierre huyghejesse darlingsidsel meineche hansen |
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| title | Affective Iconoclasm: Codes of Labour as a Human Characteristic |
| title_full | Affective Iconoclasm: Codes of Labour as a Human Characteristic |
| title_fullStr | Affective Iconoclasm: Codes of Labour as a Human Characteristic |
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| title_short | Affective Iconoclasm: Codes of Labour as a Human Characteristic |
| title_sort | affective iconoclasm codes of labour as a human characteristic |
| topic | primatology posthuman labour pierre huyghe jesse darling sidsel meineche hansen |
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