The future of the ‘Artist’: challenges of transdisciplinarity and the expanding field of art
Participants: Matteo Lucchetti (freelance curator, curator Visible), Tobias Sternberg (artist), Daniel Blanga-Gubbay (researcher, founder Aleppo), Moderator: Denis Maksimov (theorist, curator and researcher)
Artists take over more and more the status of different specialists: the artist as anthropologist, artist as scientist, artist as philosopher, etc. Due to the stronger liberalisation and flexibilisation of our current economy, the role of the artist seems to be turning into a flexible, self-motivated and innovative individual: artist becomes a ‘transdisciplinary agent’ and 'cross-sectoral diplomat’. Increase of artists collectives is another interesting trend that illustrates transformation of the artist’s role and function in the society. How is this change affecting their work and how can they develop their practice under these circumstances?
How is this influencing our notion of 'art’? What are the effects of co-productions between different fields in the realisation of artworks, artists infiltrating into other fields, cross-disciplinarity and knowledge exchanges? Which new discourses or art forms have been created because of this shift and how could the outcome function as a way to reinvent and rethink the present day to change tomorrow?