- Jens Van Lathem, Scott William Raby, Tobias Van Royen
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Bureau Of Analogies
40 pages
A4
- Design: Seth Weiner
One of capitalism's most erosive effects is the ongoing replacement of social contracts with legal contracts. The power imbalance inherent to relations regulated by the legal system has its foundation in the access to legal counsel. When artists rely on trust and habits in their practice as service providers, they in fact rely on a legal system that is mostly unknown, and therefore inaccessible, to them. This is why the Bureau of Analogies has taken the first steps in finding and modeling relevant legal analogies to integrate within contracts for artists’ services. Specifically adjusted to the situation of a contemporary art gallery hosting an exhibition of artists’ services, the Bureau of Analogies project is based on research on the specific situation of artists’ working conditions in Vienna, and previous work which resulted in reformulating an artwork lending contract for an exhibition as a foster care agreement.