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  1. Oct 2021
    1. abor as a source of wealth.

      Marxist theory; Labor is the source of wealth and all culture, and since useful labor is possible only in society and through society, the proceeds of labor belong undiminished with equal right to all members of society.

  2. publicannotations.icavcu.org publicannotations.icavcu.org
    1. Through these institutional vehicles, and through residencies, publications, grants, university programs, and smaller festivals, South East Asian artists, curators, critics, and collectors have been drawn to this golden hub in substantial numbers.

      programs and residencies will no longer be offered, as it provided a place for critical discourse about regional and international topics in a city-state still known for strict prohibitions on speech and censorship.

      http://artasiapacific.com/News/SingaporeLosesMajorExhibitionAndResidencyPlatform

    2. Perversion’s wealth becomes education’s profit.

      Foucault’s focus was Power. He came bearing the bad news in bad prose that every institution, no matter how benign it seems, is a scene of unspeakable domination.

    3. The rest are migrants, most on two-year work visas, working as domestics, in construction, and in all forms of maintenance, repair, and physical upkeep of the world city.

      The role of a migrant; denied access to social and cultural institutions because of language and resource limitations. The condition of the migrant, the nature of labor in society.

    4. The arts would then clearly be instructing us in a misalignment. And indeed, they would be making the case for reform, for more instruction, and ultimately for more art. But their art is far more partisan than this.

      Could of been a work of Institutional Critique (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/institutional-critique)

      But this reminds me of the text written from Yacouba Konate on Dak'Art about when government gets control of the funding, it becomes a source of instutional power.