Skills of Economy; A presentation and discussion with Jussi Koitela
The asfaBBQ presents:
Jussi Koitela in “Skills of Economy”
May 30, 2016
Jussi Koitela is going to present his ongoing project Skills of Economy and discuss the challenges of using artistic research methodologies to address economic questions. Skills of Economy is a curatorial concept dealing with contemporary artists’ actions towards the current economic situation and the entire concept of economy as a whole. Economy and economical rhetorics have filled up media space in the western world. Economy has become the most important way of describing the world and it’s progress. Skills of Economy is a project that researches and archives contemporary artistic reactions in this societal situation. www.skillsofeconomy.com
Jussi Koitela is a curator and a visual artist currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His long term curatorial research project Skills of Economy address artistic reactions to economic discourses and structures. Currently he is participant of De Appel Curatorial Programme. www.jussikoitela.com/