How Art Becomes Organization: Reimagining Aesthetics, Sites and Politics of Entrepreneurship

Ditte Vilstrup Holm*, Timon Beyes

*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

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    Abstract

    Art and entrepreneurship both demonstrate a particular power to experiment with how the social is apprehended, organized and inhabited. How can we then understand and theorize the particular power of art understood as entrepreneurial organizing? In this paper, we develop the concept of artistic entrepreneuring. It is based on contemporary art’s wide-ranging “organizational turn”, where art becomes organization by experimenting with forms and processes of emancipatory organizing. Interweaving art theory, examples of art’s organizational turn and a processual understanding of public entrepreneurship, we conceptualize artistic entrepreneuring as fundamentally aesthetic, necessarily sited and invariably political, and we discuss the implications for entrepreneurship studies and research on the aesthetics and politics of organizing.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftOrganization Studies
    Vol/bind43
    Udgave nummer2
    Sider (fra-til)227-245
    Antal sider19
    ISSN0170-8406
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - feb. 2022

    Bibliografisk note

    Published online: April 3, 2021.

    Emneord

    • Organizing
    • Contemporary art
    • Aesthetics
    • Ranicére
    • Commoning
    • Participation
    • Social entrepreneurship
    • Public entrepreneurship
    • Space
    • Public art

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