Framework: The Finnish Art Review
Issue 6: Surplus of the Arts
January 2007, 131 pages

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Framework 6 is built around the theme of a seminar A Critique of
Creative Industries, co-organised by FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art
Exchange and eicp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural
Policies, based in Vienna) in Helsinki, 31 August - 2 September 2006.
The aim of the seminar was to analyse the instrumental use of
creativity and the impact it has on public sector support for the
arts and culture.

When in 1944 Adorno and Horkheimer wrote their famous Dialectics of
Enlightenment they also coined the concept of “cultural industry”. In
a chapter entitled The Cultural Industry. Enlightenment as Mass
Deception they laid the ground for their fundamental critique of
culture as a component of a new form of totalitarian oppression.
Around 1968 the concept was again put to the foreground to criticize
the repressive functions especially of mass media, but in the course
of the following decades it slowly voided of its critical content.
During these years it became adopted as just another principle of
neoliberal cultural politics: In a completely transformed manner, the
concept of the Frankfurt School was (mis-)used as a key concept of
Blairist cultural politics, and it made its way back to the continent
in the end of the 1990s. With the help of blockbuster terms such as
Richard Florida’s “Creative Class” it became a feature of urban and
economic development plans in many European cities, and finally
arrived in the agenda of the cultural politics of the European Union.

Among the contributors in the seminar were Gerald Raunig (Vienna),
Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris), Matteo Pasquinelli (Barcelona/London),
Tere Vadén (Tampere), Ulf Wuggenig (Lueneburg), Raimund Minichbauer
(Vienna), Marko Karo & Marita Muukkonen (Helsinki), Maria Lind
(Stockholm), Monica Mokre (Vienna), and Brank ur i (Novi Sad).

Topics related to the general them of the issue have been dealt also,
for example, by René Block and Marius Babias (Berlin), Kirsi
Peltomäki (Corvallis, Oregon), Bisi Silva (Lagos), Frans-Josef
Petterson (Stockholm), Ivet Curlin (Zagreb) and Branimir Stojanovi
(Belgrad).
The featured artists are Kari Cavén, Tommi Grönlund and Petteri
Nisunen, Terike Haapoja and Juha Huuskonen.

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