Pfoser, Alena and De Jong, Sara orcid.org/0000-0002-5132-2777 (2019) ‘I’m not being paid for this conversation’::Uncovering the challenges of artist-academic collaborations in the neoliberal institution. International Journal of Cultural Studies. ISSN 1460-356X
Abstract
Artist-academic collaborations are fueled by increasing institutional pressures to show the impact of academic research. This article departs from the celebratory accounts of collaborative work and pragmatic toolkits for successful partnerships, which are dominant in existing scholarship, arguing for the need to critically interrogate the structural conditions under which collaborations take place. Based on a reflexive case study of a project developed in the context of Tate Exchange, one of the UK’s highest-profile platforms for knowledge exchange, we reveal three sets of (unequal) pressures, which mark artist-academic collaborations in the contemporary neoliberal academy: asymmetric funding and remuneration structures; uneven pressures of audit cultures; acceleration and temporal asymmetries. Innovations at the level of individual projects or partners can only mitigate the negative effects to a limited extent. Instead this article offers a systemic critique of the political economy of artist-academic collaborations and shifts the research agenda to developing a collective response.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
Keywords: | Research impact,neoliberalism,artist-academic collaboration, co-production,co-production |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 21 Oct 2019 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2025 00:26 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877919885951 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1367877919885951 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:152388 |
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