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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_19230
dc.contributor.author	Fiocco Fabiola
dc.title	Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Deconstructing the Performance of Labour in the Bureau of Melodramatic Research
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The advent of neoliberalism was accompanied by a substantial ideological and visual apparatus required to promote and legitimise the new forms of labour and mechanisms of power it generated. Concurrently, labour garnered significant attention from artists, particularly feminist artists, who started misappropriating the visual vocabulary of work as a means of political reclamation. This paper examines the practice of the artistic duo The Bureau of Melodramatic Research and the aesthetic strategies they implement to deconstruct the contemporary performance of labour and shed light on the distress, precarity and paradoxes of contemporary work.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-22
dc.dateAccepted	2023-10-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-771-5/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5/006
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-771-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Feminist art
dc.subject	Labour of love
dc.subject	Melodrama
dc.subject	Neoliberal imaginary
dc.subject	Occupational realism
dc.subject	Socially engaged art
dc.subject	The Bureau of Melodramatic Research

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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Deconstructing the Performance of Labour in the Bureau of Melodramatic Research

Fabiola Fiocco Edinburgh College of Art, UK

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The advent of neoliberalism was accompanied by a substantial ideological and visual apparatus required to promote and legitimise the new forms of labour and mechanisms of power it generated. Concurrently, labour garnered significant attention from artists, particularly feminist artists, who started misappropriating the visual vocabulary of work as a means of political reclamation. This paper examines the practice of the artistic duo The Bureau of Melodramatic Research and the aesthetic strategies they implement to deconstruct the contemporary performance of labour and shed light on the distress, precarity and paradoxes of contemporary work.

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Dec. 22, 2023

Accepted

Oct. 30, 2023

Submitted

Sept. 17, 2023

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978-88-6969-771-5

Keywords: Socially engaged art • Feminist art • Occupational realism • The Bureau of Melodramatic Research • Neoliberal imaginary • Melodrama • Labour of love

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