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.