Series | Quaderni di Venezia Arti
Edited book | A Driving Force
Chapter | Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Deconstructing the Performance of Labour in the Bureau of Melodramatic Research
- Fabiola Fiocco - Edinburgh College of Art, UK - email
Abstract
The advent of neoliberalism was accompanied by a substantial ideological and visual apparatus required to promote and legitimise the new forms of labour and mechanisms of power it generated. Concurrently, labour garnered significant attention from artists, particularly feminist artists, who started misappropriating the visual vocabulary of work as a means of political reclamation. This paper examines the practice of the artistic duo The Bureau of Melodramatic Research and the aesthetic strategies they implement to deconstruct the contemporary performance of labour and shed light on the distress, precarity and paradoxes of contemporary work.
Submitted: Sept. 17, 2023 | Accepted: Oct. 30, 2023 | Published Dec. 22, 2023 | Language: en
Keywords Feminist art • Occupational realism • Melodrama • The Bureau of Melodramatic Research • Socially engaged art • Labour of love • Neoliberal imaginary
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dc.contributor.author |
Fiocco Fabiola |
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dc.title |
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Deconstructing the Performance of Labour in the Bureau of Melodramatic Research |
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dc.type |
Chapter |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.description.abstract |
The advent of neoliberalism was accompanied by a substantial ideological and visual apparatus required to promote and legitimise the new forms of labour and mechanisms of power it generated. Concurrently, labour garnered significant attention from artists, particularly feminist artists, who started misappropriating the visual vocabulary of work as a means of political reclamation. This paper examines the practice of the artistic duo The Bureau of Melodramatic Research and the aesthetic strategies they implement to deconstruct the contemporary performance of labour and shed light on the distress, precarity and paradoxes of contemporary work. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Quaderni di Venezia Arti |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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dc.issued |
2023-12-22 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2023-10-30 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2023-09-17 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-771-5/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5/006 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2784-8868 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
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dc.identifier.eisbn |
978-88-6969-771-5 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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with fulltext |
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open |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Feminist art |
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dc.subject |
Labour of love |
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dc.subject |
Melodrama |
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dc.subject |
Neoliberal imaginary |
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dc.subject |
Occupational realism |
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dc.subject |
Socially engaged art |
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dc.subject |
The Bureau of Melodramatic Research |
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