Response to Charles Esche, “The First Exhibition of the Twenty-First Century—Lumbung 1 (Documenta Fifteen), What Happened, and What It Might Mean Two Years On.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 24, no. 1 Large-scale international exhibitions flourished in the nineteen-nineties, as Internet technologies underwritten by the Californian Ideology promised a pathway out of state-managed […]
Butt, Danny. “Ethics and the Infrastructure of Artistic Research: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument.” In The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy: Challenges for Creative Practice Researchers in Higher Education, edited by Barbara Bolt and Kate MacNeill, 25–37. London: Routledge, 2020. [Accepted version] The relationship between the political and the ethical is one of […]
Butt, D. How Artistic Research Ends. 1st ed. Vol. RUPC #7 / Surpllus #13.7. RUPC Series. Melbourne, Australia: Surpllus, 2020. We know how artistic research begins, more or less: The new mode of specialist study in the humanities filters from Germany to the US in the 19th century and then into the massive growth of […]
Below the reading list for the two “Arts and Communities” theory classes I taught for the Master of Arts and Community Practice at the Centre for Cultural Partnerships (CCP), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2016. These are not the final version presented to students, which were supplemented by a number of texts […]
Platforms and public participation Danny Butt, Scott McQuire and Nikos Papastergiadis The concept of the ‘platform’ has recently received extensive analysis in media studies and urban planning. This paper explores the platform’s contemporary emergence as an expression of a new archival logic that questions the possibility of a democratic politics of participation. ‘Public participation’ in the platform invokes the individual […]
This piece co-authored with Local Time: “Colonial Hospitality: Rethinking Curatorial and Artistic Responsibility”, published in the Journal for Artistic Research 10 2016. Read on the JAR Website here. Abstract: The recent enthusiasm for gestures of hospitality in contemporary art promises relief from the individualising forces of neoliberal capitalism and the professionalised hierarchies of the art world. […]
Published in Fibreculture Journal Issue 27 – Read on the Fibreculture website here. Abstract: The field of Internet governance has been dominated by Euro-American actors and has largely resisted consideration of a holistic and integrative rights-based agenda, confining itself to narrow discussions on the technical stability of Internet Protocol resources and debates about nation-state involvement in […]
Review essay to appear in RUPC Working Papers series, 2015. http://public-cultures.unimelb.edu.au/ Danny Butt, Research Fellow, Research Unit in Public Cultures, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. 1st June 2014. Revised 9th July 2014. [PDF version available on the RUPC website here] Abstract Published in 2011, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s An Aesthetic Education in the Era of […]
[This is not mine, but I thought it would be useful to make a stable link for this short summary that was both the impetus for my 15 years with Spivak’s work, and that has also served me well as a heuristic in my own brief forays into the international development arena. So here’s a readable […]
The grounding narrative of politicization for the people my teenage self wanted to become looked back to Paris, May 1968. Uncompromising refusal, collective action and the aesthetics of the street made the Situationist International a privileged model for political activity in experimental arts and punk rock circles. Zine culture brought the Situationists to the decidedly […]
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