The essays in this volume apply an experimental ethos to collaborative cultural production. Expanding the fields of art, design, and architectural research, contributors provide critical reflection on collaborative practice-based research. The volume builds on a pop-up market hosted by the London-based arts cluster Critical Practice that sought to creatively explore existing structures of evaluation and actively produce new ones. Assembled by lead editor Marsha Bradfield, the essays contextualize the event within London’s long history of marketplaces, offer reflections from the stallholders, and celebrate its value system, particularly its critique of econometrics. A glossary rounds off the text and opens up the publication as a resource.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Editor’s Preface
Marsha Bradfield
Foreword
Malcolm Quinn
Introduction: Trading in Public Good
Marsha Bradfield, Cinzia Cremona and Verina Gfader
Partial self-portrait of Critical Practice
Introduced by Marsha Bradfield
Taking Enzo to market: Open stalls
Neil Cummings (and Critical Practice) and Andreas Lang (and public works)
Stallholders’ reflections
Introduced by Amy McDonnell
Happy Anniversary Critical Practice
Marsha Bradfield
TransActing as an iceberg
Kuba Szreder
Remembering and forgetting in consumerism
Nicholas Temple
Techniques of aberrant extraction: Transacting surplus acts in an age of speculation
Emily Rosamond
A conversation on value with Andrea Phillips
Andrea Phillips and Verina Gfader
Minor Compositions: Notes towards a publishing resonance
STEVPHEN SHUKAITIS
Platforms and shelters:
A reflection on #TransActing: A Market of Values
Amy McDonnell and Eva Sajovic
Glossary
Cinzia Cremona