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<p><b><a
href="https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions">Minor
Compositions Podcast</a> Episode 22 Subversive Performance in
the Age of Human Capital with Pil & Galia Kollectiv<br>
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Also available now on the ole' <a
href="https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions">YouTube</a>.<br>
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<p>In this episode we chat with Pil and Galia Kollectiv to explore
their new book, <i>Subversive Performance in the Age of Human
Capital</i>. 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. <br>
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“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.”<br>
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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.<br>
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