Art and Inequality Roundtable 2
On Tuesday 13 June 2023, the Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice theme and the Politics of Inequality research programmes co-hosted the second roundtable on Art and Inequality, bringing together academics, doctoral researchers, AFSEE Fellows, and MSc students for a day of discussion and exploration. It was a successful collective exercise to challenge ourselves and our theories to examine the relationship between art and inequalities from diverse theoretical, disciplinary, and methodological perspectives.
The aims of this event were two-fold:
1) to create a space of discussion on art and inequalities drawing on researchers and practitioners from across disciplines and methodological approaches
2) to push the discussion of art and inequalities into new directions of research.
Session1: Visualising and contesting property: How does the art world construct economic capital, and wealth accumulation? (Mike Savagae, Sarah Kerr, Kristina Kolbe, Michael Vaughan)
Session 2: Art as a form of resistance and challenge to inequalities: how artistic strategies of innovative practice and adaptation of technologies respond to and contest the legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism, dispossession and enslavement embedded in contemporary modes of power enacted through class, gendered and racialized inequalities (Armine Ishkanian, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Jite Phido).