| Icebergian Economies of Contemporary Art “Icebergian Economies of Contemporary Art” by Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder (Centre for Plausible Economies) offers reflections on art and economy, stimulated by J. K. Gibson-Graham’s representation of the economy as an iceberg. Just as the capitalist economy is the peak of the iceberg, the glossy world of celebrity art dominates over the vast—yet invisible—realm of artistic dark matter, the realm of artistic labour that sustains the social gravity of the artistic universe, just as physical dark matter prevents the cosmos from collapsing. Themes include visible/invisible; blue line or the surface; the gloss over the dark matter; me versus the many; and art world/s. |
| Farmers Talk |
| OIL In July 2023, Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW ) and Myvillages delivered a four-day Summer Camp, titled “Who has the Energy?”, which explored the material and immaterial energy that shapes cultural work through hands-on sessions, talks, dinners and cultural action. The camp took place in the home village of SSW in Lumsden (Aberdeenshire), connecting the “localised, transformative cultural practice [of SSW ] into a wider multi-local and international context”. The Summer Camp intended to “address connections between; the economics of oil and everyday culture, rural practice and cultural desires, and the social energy in a caring multispecies world” (SSW2024). 
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| From Rice Barns to Doughnuts: To Redraw the Economies, One Can Start with a Pencil. |
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| Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life This volume critically profiles, contextualizes, and theoretically elaborates the unique practice of the UK-based German artist Kathrin Böhm. Combining visual and textual material, it offers an overview of Böhm's exceptional modus operandi that is rooted in a highly original artistic synthesis of a range of practices. Over the last three decades, Böhm has expanded the terms of socially engaged ways of working to an unprecedented scale and breadth by producing complex organizational, spatial, visual, and economic forms. 
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| Company Drinks. Economy as a Public Realm |
| Icebergian Economies of Contemporary Art Icebergian Economies of Contemporary Art offers reflections on art and economy, stimulated by J.K. Gibson-Graham’s representation of the economy as an iceberg. Themes include visible/invisible; blue line or the surface; the gloss over the dark matter; me versus the many; and art world/s.
An online version of the book is available here. The book was a contribution to a larger project, Cyber-PiraMMMida, which explores the pyramidal spectres and structures which haunt the worlds of architecture, art, academia and the everyday.
For more on representations of the economy as an iceberg, click here. 
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| How to reclaim the economy using artistic means: the case of Company Drinks The chapter proposes a critical and practical approach towards acknowledging that most artists not only support their practices through a diverse range of incomes and support systems, but that an increasing number of artists conceptualize and enact artistic practices which resist the extreme commodification of mainstream arts, and are creating new plausible art worlds based on the concept of usership versus the conventional and dominant model of spectatorship. These new art worlds reorganize the relationships between art and everyday cultures, and are thus reorganizing their economic underpinnings and interrelationships. To illustrate such a practice the authors use Company Drinks, an East London based community-led drinks enterprise which is also art whilst re-claiming the different meanings of the word company. Company Drinks also hosts the Centre for Plausible Economies, which was set up by the authors Kathrin Böhm and Kuba Szreder in order to map and re-imagine economic systems in the arts and beyond. |
| The Rural An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.
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| Learn to Act The book is titled Learn to Act, because that’s what we set out to do. The title is a clear proclamation towards a form of learning which is both an act of commoning and a moment in which knowledge becomes relative, collective and applied. Learn to Act is about the near future, how to act, and how to support each other.
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| Trade as Public Realm / Economy as Public Space As part of Your Money or Your Life: Feminist Perspectives on Economy
Edited by Bonnie Fortune and Lise Skou
This series of short essays presents research, ideas, and proposals from four scholars and artists on contemporary life lived in the throes of global capitalism. The four women authors are responsible for creative opinions and approaches as to how we, as a culture, might come to inhabit different economic realities. 
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| Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks Book outlining the ideas and ambitions behind Company Drinks.
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