No. 118 (2025): The Art–Labour Relationship in Contemporary Art

eISSN 2783-6843 | ISSN 1392-0316

Editors: Lina Michelkevičė, Edgaras Gerasimovičius

Cover: Paweł Althamer, statuette of Fryderyk (left), and Edward Dwurnik, commissioned portrait (right), Sposób na życie, exhibition view, 2002, courtesy of Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art

Published: 22/12/2025

Foreword

Foreword

Lina Michelkevičė

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Articles

Critical Dance in/as Contemporary Art: Labour, Commodity and Value in Alexandra Pirici’s Encyclopaedia of Relations

Josefine Wikstrom

14-41
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What is the (Art)Work of Care? Close-Reading the Artistic Labour of Institutional Transformation in the Work of Marina Naprushkina and Caroline Woolard

Janette Helm, Sophie Mak-Schram, Lena Pozdnyakova, Luise Marie Willer

42-77
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Ambivalences of Care/Curare: Solidarity Networks and Curatorial Practices as a Form of Collective Resistance

Friederike Nastold, Thari Jungen

78-97
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Towards a Genealogy of Art and “The Automatic”

Jens Schröter

98-118
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Things We Make. In Search of Intersections Between Artist-Curator Work and Networks as a Form of Immaterial Labor in 1980s Latvia

Maija Rudovska

119-150
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Confluence in Four White Shirts: Escaping Tensions

Marija Weste

151-182
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A Way of Life Exhibition: The Invisibility of Artistic Labour after the Period of State Socialism in Poland

Jakub Banasiak

183-212
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“Se compran colchones…” Informal Labor and Contemporary Mexican Art

Jorge M. Sanguino

239-263
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OSTKREUZ – Agency of Photographers: Balancing Legacy and Adaptation in a Photographic Landscape after German Reunification

Anne Pfautsch

213-238
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How to Talk About Work? Imaginary Archive as a Method

Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė
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No. 118 (2025): The Art–Labour Relationship in Contemporary Art

Foreword

Foreword

Articles

Critical Dance in/as Contemporary Art: Labour, Commodity and Value in Alexandra Pirici’s Encyclopaedia of Relations

What is the (Art)Work of Care? Close-Reading the Artistic Labour of Institutional Transformation in the Work of Marina Naprushkina and Caroline Woolard

Ambivalences of Care/Curare: Solidarity Networks and Curatorial Practices as a Form of Collective Resistance

Towards a Genealogy of Art and “The Automatic”

Things We Make. In Search of Intersections Between Artist-Curator Work and Networks as a Form of Immaterial Labor in 1980s Latvia

Confluence in Four White Shirts: Escaping Tensions

A Way of Life Exhibition: The Invisibility of Artistic Labour after the Period of State Socialism in Poland

“Se compran colchones…” Informal Labor and Contemporary Mexican Art

OSTKREUZ – Agency of Photographers: Balancing Legacy and Adaptation in a Photographic Landscape after German Reunification

How to Talk About Work? Imaginary Archive as a Method

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