[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 22 Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital with Pil & Galia Kollectiv

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast 
<https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions> Episode 22 
Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital with Pil & Galia 
Kollectiv
*
Also available now on the ole' YouTube 
<https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions>.

In this episode we chat with Pil and Galia Kollectiv to explore their 
new book, /Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital/. Stevphen 
was originally to take part in the book release event last autumn in 
London but was unable. So instead we’ve turned that missed event into an 
excuse for a conversation around Pil and Galia’s work. Topics covered 
include intersections of performance, labor, and neoliberal culture, 
examining how artistic expression resists and reframes the 
commodification of human potential.

“Contemporary art relies on an expansionist, modernist ideal and still 
progresses through a critique of earlier forms of democratisation. But 
beneath this democratic drive, lurks a creeping crisis. Under 
neoliberalism, criticality has become a zone of value production. A 
self-deprecating irony, exposing and re-enacting this position of 
impotence, is one of the few gestures left in the arsenal of critical 
art. Against this irony, this book pits overidentification. This term 
has been taken to mean a kind of parodic mimicry of institutional power. 
Using a broad tapestry of sources, from political philosophers to art 
theorists, from post-Marxist critiques of labour to ethnographic 
studies, it proposes an interpretation of overidentification that does 
not collapse into ironic posturing. The authors differentiate this from 
bad faith flirting with taboo aesthetics by focusing on practices 
grounded in a genuine identification with power that ushers the kind of 
excess implied by overidentification. It is these forms of 
overidentification that destabilise the metastasis of liberal-democracy. 
Staging forms of critique not so readily absorbed into the structure of 
the present, these subversive performances herald a future beyond the 
democratic paradox.”

Bio: Pil and Galia Kollectiv are artists, writers and curators working 
in collaboration. They lecture in Art at the University of Reading, 
Royal College of Art and University of the Arts London.
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