Marina Vishmidt (born 1976) is an American writer, editor and critic.[1] She lectures at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London in the MA program Culture Industry, and teaches Art Theory in the MA Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. Her research mainly concerns the relationship between art, value and labour.[2] She further explores this through works on debt, social reproduction and artistic entrepreneurialism.[3] In 2013, she completed her PhD entitled 'Speculation as a Mode of Production in Art and Capital' at the Queen Mary University of London.[4]

Writing

Vishmidt has written and edited several publications including Speculation as a Mode of Production (Brill, 2018),[5] Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art (2016) together with Kerstin Stakemeier[6] and Media Mutandis (2006) written together with Mary Anne Francis, Jo Walsh and Lewis Sykes.[7]

Vishmidt contributed to various publications, such as the Exhibition catalogue for Grace Schwindt's exhibition Run a Home, Build a Town, Lead a Revolution. An Exhibition in Three Acts (1362), at MARCO - Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo[8], and The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON [9] published by Casco, Utrecht in 2010. She authored several chapters in the Routledge Companion to Art and Politics which discusses the complex relationship between art and politics and was published in 2015.

She is also a frequent contributor to various journals, including Afterall,[10] Texte zur Kunst[11] and E-flux.[12]

Collaborations

Vishmidt frequently collaborates with various artists and activists. In 2010, she contributed texts to the 4th instalment of the project Lying Freely by artist Ruth Buchanan which took the form of a book.[13]

She was also part of a longterm research group of artists, writers, architects and musicians who worked together on the historical and contemporary presentation, documentation and reception of Victory over the Sun a Russian Futurist opera that premiered in 1913 in Saint Petersburg. The collective research efforts have been gathered in the publication Anfang Gut, Alles Gut - Actualizations of the Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun 1913.[14]

Vishmidt is part of the working group of Cinenova a London-based feminist film and video distributor.[15] She also collaborated with the Full Unemployment Cinema, a collective which screened films in independent, self-organised venues around London.[16] The films focus mostly on themes of work, non-work, refusal and struggle.

References

  1. ↑ "Scattering as Behaviour Toward Risk". 49 nord 6 est Frac Lorraine. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "FORMER WEST – Marina Vishmidt". www.formerwest.org. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  3. ↑ "Marina Vishmidt". BAK. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  4. ↑ Vishmidt, Marina. Speculation as a Mode of Production. Leiden: Brill.
  5. ↑ Vishmidt, Marina (16 October 2018). Speculation as a Mode of Production. Leiden & Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-29137-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ Stakemeier, Kerstin (6 May 2016). Reproducing autonomy : work, money, crisis and contemporary art. London. ISBN 978-1906496999. OCLC 967855147.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ Media Mutandis : A Node.London reader. Vishmidt, Marina., Francis, Mary Anne., Walsh, Jo., Sykes, Lewis. [London]. 2006. ISBN 0955243505. OCLC 154678056.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. ↑ Agar Ledo, Gill Park, Grace Schwindt, Marina Vishmidt, Bridget Crone (2016). Grace Schwindt. Vigo: Fundacion MARCO & Goethe Institut. ISBN 978-84-943529-1-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ The grand domestic revolution goes on. Choi, Binna., Tanaka, Maiko., Casco, Office for Art, Design, and Theory. Utrecht: London. 2010. ISBN 9781907414145. OCLC 697775234.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ↑ "Artists at Work: Maryam Jafri • Online • Afterall". www.afterall.org. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  11. ↑ "The Sweetest Taboo". www.textezurkunst.de. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  12. ↑ ""Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated": Social Practice as Business Model - Journal #43 March 2013 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  13. ↑ Ruth Buchanan, Marina Vishmidt (2010). Lying Freely. New Zealand: Jan van Eyck Academie and Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory. ISBN 978-90-72076-41-0.
  14. ↑ Anfang gut. Alles gut : Aktualisierungen der futuristischen Oper Sieg über die Sonne (1913) = Actualizations of the futurist opera Victory over the sun (1913). Birkenstock, Eva, 1978-, Köller, Nina., Stakemeier, Kerstin, 1975-. Köln: Walther König. 2012. ISBN 9783863351441. OCLC 849898840.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ↑ "Out of the Past: An Interview with Cinenova". www.metamute.org. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  16. ↑ "Who the FuC?". Full Unemployment Cinema. 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
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