Mobile autonomy : exercises in artists' self-organization / Nico Dockx & Pascal Gielen (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Autonomous labor and its attendant values have now become familiar tools of neoliberal capitalism: work has become freelance, flexible, mobile, project-based, hybrid and temporary. If these conditions are novel to the general economy, this way of working is not new to artists, who began experiencing these precarious conditions long before Post-Fordism was a buzzword. The contributors to Mobile Autonomy, drawn from a variety of disciplines including art, political philosophy and sociology, examine the alternate working methods and economic models developed, in theory and in practice, by artists and other creative professionals to make artistic work viable in contemporary social, economic and political conditions.

Introduction / Nico Dockx & Pascal Gielen -- Part I. Common precarious autonomy -- 14 questions/14 responses: interview: Thomas Hirschhorn / Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen & Sara Weyns -- Eternal flame / Thomas Hirschhorn -- Autonomy and precarization / Isabell Lorey -- A caravan of freedom: mobile autonomy beyond 'auto-mobility' / Pascal Gielen -- Part 2. New autonomous attitudes -- Revolution/constitution / A Dog Republic -- Nautonomat operating manual : a draft design for a collective space of 'nautonomy' for artists and their friends / Raqs Media Collective -- Like water: stories of motherhood / Oda Projesi -- Quotations from/thoughts after symprovization on art and empathy / Erik Hagoort, Kirsten Leenaars, Jason Pallas, Caroline Picard, Tricia Van Eck -- Between professional precariousness and creative self-organization : the free perfoming arts scene in Germany / Jonas Tinius -- How to radicalize a mouse? Notes on radical opportunism / Kuba Szreder -- An interpretation of Jef Geys' oeuvre with autonomy as a voluntary guideline / Louise Osieka, Jef Geys.