Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
The fact that entirely new global networks and economies were spawned by fair agreements between musicians, designers, and organisers. The individual is truly more independent under an interdependent regime, with a network of people who have their back, or an audience of people who cover their expenses.
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These are all pointers to a future fusion of technology, the arts, and community engagement in shaping cities, where our minds and bodies are activated in different kinds of experience, connection and imagination. They echo an earlier point about politics. If the tools of art can be used to construct possible future options for a society, to flush
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Art, which had previously been a way to produce discursive polyphony, aligned itself with the dominant social-justice discourses of the day, with works dressed up as protest and contextualized according to decolonial or queer theory, driven by a singular focus on identity.
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Unions and the state might have been outdated, but nothing was nurtured to replace them. Instead, all that was left was individual, atomised power: power that could only be mobilised by appeal to self-interest, and could only be expressed in the choice between options, not the power to shape those options.