Arts, economics & management crossings
While economic theory and strategic management thinking deal with economic value and its generation artistic practices often reject, avoid or subvert the very notion of value and monetisation.
The Special Interest Group Arts, Economics & Management Crossings was initiated in 2019 following the Zurich SAR Conference.
The contemporary world requires us to build new forms of value that can be shared among humans on the one hand and between humans and other-than-humans on the other hand.
This urgency is patent in the reflections of several trends among which "décroissance" movement (or degrowth), ecocriticism, ecofeminism, care, decolonial studies…
How can artistic research and practice contribute to rework, repair, reconfigure building and using all sorts of knowledge?
How can the knowledge secreted from fields such as economics, strategy and organisation theory be reinvested into creative reworking?
Attempts, failures, weaving and sharing experimentation are now essential.
The first in-person workshop was held in Nantes, June 2024, around the figure of Ivan Illich and his notion of counter-research.
Organisers
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Claire Gauzente
Claire Gauzente (contact person) is a post-disciplinary researcher working at Nantes University. She develops her research at the crossings of her initial background in social sciences, visual arts and writing.
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Benoît Pascaud
Benoît Pascaud is a visual artist, former head of the Print department at the Fine Art School, Nantes.
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Régis Dumoulin
Régis Dumoulin is a musician and a sound-artist, also a professor of organisation theory and strategic management at the University of Angers.