Crossed look on art and digital technology
Michel Maffesoli welcomes Patrick Tacussel, lecturer in Sociology at Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, and Montréal-based artist and sociologist Hervé Fischer, to discuss Fischer’s latest book: MARKET ART, (published by François Bourin), on the way art is changing as our societies become postmodern.
Michel Maffesoli invites artist and sociologist Hervé Fischer, with whom he produced the joint work, Postmodernité à l’Heure du Numérique, published several months ago by François Bourin. The debate takes its cue from the performance Alchimie Sociologique Postmoderne*, presented by Hervé Fischer on 20 October to mark the start of his exhibition and the launch of his book MARKET ART, in which he analyses art’s current transformation into a financial speculation product: “This phenomenon is so emblematic of our era, so globalised, that there are no new artistic movements which could be named (in the way one might previously have talked about impressionism or abstract art) other than, by default, this “market art””.
Doesn’t this allow us to (re)think the art of the everyday? How can we turn our lives into art?