{"id":9796,"date":"2017-06-30T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2017\/06\/30\/d-for-distribution3550\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T11:55:10","slug":"d-for-distribution3550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/d-for-distribution3550\/","title":{"rendered":"D for Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Andreas Topfer<\/p>\n<p>In our day to day, with every step we take, when we get to work (if we get to it \u2013or when we sit down, at home, coffee-tea-juice and computer\u2026) when we buy, move in metro-bus-bicycle-car\u2026when we drink water, fizzy drinks or alcohol; at every moment we are surrounded by rules: moral or legal, binding or nor, that determine the way things are, and fix the codes and conduct of what is correct and just.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way the politics we define marks our ways of life, the laws that surround us \u2013even if we ignore them- determining our capacities and our limitations. Trapped by rules, even if we aren\u2019t familiar with them, these also reach an art market that has surpassed all limits of what is moral, just and correct (like for example, Richard Prince) but that, despite this, populate a complex system that is often not observed with sufficient attention.<\/p>\n<p>In this issue we proposed to talk about the rules that govern distribution in the world of art and everything that derives from this essential step within the system.<\/p>\n<p>We wanted to tackle the subject from a legal, specialised point of view, so we asked <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/100-years-behind-Intellectual.html\">Eva Soria to collaborate <\/a>, accustomed as she is to moving across two fronts, the legal and the artistic. We also wanted to broaden judgment and extend options with the critical observation fro channels that we have known with the turn of the century: <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/Free-money-Ask-the-government-for.html\">Gl\u00f2ria Guso wrote a commentary suspicious of crowdfunding <\/a> (could we also call it \u201cbroad based capitalism\u201d?), of its dangers and perversions. <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/Libraries-weren-t-the-end-of.html\">Nerea Arrojer\u00eda wrote a text full of the referents there have been<\/a>, testimony to a real option for a different form of distribution, that of sharing, as a viable and efficient alternative. Mar\u00eda Mu\u00f1oz contributed with an <a href=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/highlights\/An-interview-with-Armen-Avanessian.html\">indispensable interview with the generous and multifaceted Arman Avanessian<\/a>,a philosopher of speculative realism and author of the project Discreet, an intelligence agency for people. A conversation in which we also learned, about systems of power and sabotage within the art system, the <em>Zeitkomplex<\/em> and the need to go beyond the &#8220;contemporary&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Andreas Topfer In our day to day, with every step we take, when we get to work (if we get to it \u2013or when we sit down, at home, coffee-tea-juice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1241,"featured_media":16011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3320],"tags":[5774],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>D for Distribution &#8211; 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