Lawrence Lessig, Remix. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy

In an era of public consciousness about gendered inequalities in the world of work, as well as recent revelations of sexual harassment and abuse in theatre and film production, Beckett's Catastrophe (1982) bears striking resonances. This article will suggest that, through the figure of its Assistant, the play stages the gendered nature of the labour of making art, and, in her actions, shows the kind of complicit disgust familiar to many who work in the entertainment industry, especially women. In unpacking this idea, I conceptualise the distinction between the everyday and ‘the event’, as in, between modes of quotidian labour and the attention-grabbing moment of art, between the invisible foundations of representation and the spectacle of that representation. It is my thesis that this play stages exactly this tension and that deploying a discourse of maintenance art allows the play to be read in the context of the labour of theatre-making. Highlighting the Assistant's labour becomes a way of making visible the structures of authority that are invested in maintaining gender boundaries and showing how art is too often complicit in the maintenance of social hierarchies.

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Making Art in the Age of Industry: Paintings by George Lance and Photographs by Roger Fenton

Victorian Studies ◽

10.2979/victorianstudies.62.2.11 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

pp. 230

Author(s):

O'Neill

Keyword(s):

Making Art

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Forest Management Decision-Making: Art or Science?

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc57233-5 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 57 (5) ◽

pp. 233-238 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

T. H. Hall

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Forest Management ◽

Simulation Modeling ◽

Forest Planning ◽

Management Decision ◽

Creative Design ◽

Management Decision Making ◽

Evaluation Techniques ◽

Making Art

This paper describes an approach to forest management decision-making. Acknowledging both objective and subjective elements, the approach offers a methodology to encourage more creative design in forest planning. It uses the descriptive capabilities of simulation modeling in tandem with the prescriptive capabilities of graphical evaluation techniques, to facilitate the use and interpretation of technical forestry information in decision-making problems. It emphasizes a need for an overview of long-term resource behavior as a prerequisite to, and a framework for, forest planning.

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