The last twenty years have seen a rise in the production,
circulation, and criticism of new forms of socially engaged art
aimed at achieving social justice and economic equality. In Wages
Against Artwork Leigh Claire La Berge shows how socially engaged
art responds to and critiques what she calls decommodified
labor-the slow diminishment of wages alongside an increase in the
demands of work. Outlining the ways in which socially engaged
artists relate to work, labor, and wages, La Berge examines how
artists and organizers create institutions to address their own and
others' financial precarity; why the increasing role of animals and
children in contemporary art points to the turn away from paid
labor; and how the expansion of MFA programs and student debt helps
create the conditions for decommodified labor. In showing how
socially engaged art operates within and against the need to be
paid for work, La Berge offers a new theorization of the
relationship between art and contemporary capitalism.
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