[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 20 The Arts of Logistics with Michael Shane Boyle & Elaine Ho

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 20 The Arts of Logistics with 
Michael Shane Boyle & Elaine Ho * 
<https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions>

This episode is a conversation around the new book /The Arts of 
Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism/ by Michael 
Shane Boyle. For this conversation we are joined by Elaine Ho, who 
artistic practice explores similar areas. Through this conversation 
explore how artistic practices intersect with the global logistics 
systems that underpin contemporary capitalism. Today the dynamics of 
logistical capitalism both shape dynamics of artistic and cultural 
production as well as arguably are shaped by their being intertwined 
those very forms of artistic production. How might forms of art produced 
in the logistical mode offer us a space for viewing infrastructure 
otherwise?

“We live in a world where nothing is untouched by supply chains—art 
included. In this major contribution to the study of contemporary 
culture and supply chains, Michael Shane Boyle has assembled a global 
inventory of aesthetics since the 1950s that reveals logistics to be a 
pervasive means of artistic production. The Arts of Logistics provides a 
new map of supply chain capitalism, scrutinizing how artists retool 
technologies designed for circulating commodities. What emerges is a 
magisterial account of the logistics revolution that foregrounds the 
role played by art in the long downturn of global capitalism.”

Bio: Michael Shane Boyle is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and 
Drama at Queen Mary University of London.

Elaine W. Ho works between the realms of art, social practice and 
language — and since 2015, also a co-conspirator of Display Distribute, 
a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition 
space, and sometimes shop founded in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Seeping via the 
capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalization into other 
subaltern networks and grammars, Display Distribute’s recent activities 
include the experimental infrastructure LIGHT LOGISTICS, poetic research 
and archival unit Shanzhai Lyric, and a peripatetic radio programme of 
hidden feminist narratives known as Widow Radio Ching.

Intro / outro music: Bow Gamelan Ensemble - Massed Percussion (1988)







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