eprintid: 1426202
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datestamp: 2014-04-11 10:03:16
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creators_name: Young, C
title: Subject to Contract: Law as an Artistic Medium. Paper given at Association of Art Historians conference 2014
divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B03
divisions: C01
divisions: F12
keywords: fine art, law, jurisprudence, neoliberalism, art history
abstract: My artistic work employs a variety of media, including video, installation, photography, text and performance, and is often concerned with the relationships between the body, language, rhetoric and systems of power. Since 2003 I have developed a number of artistic works that are also functional legal instruments, and which have aimed to use law as a malleable artistic medium. Whilst generally concerned with ideas of jurisprudence and the real, these works have explored diverse areas of legal knowledge such as contract law, intellectual property and ‘outer space’ law. These works have been exhibited at numerous international museums and galleries, and have typically been developed after intensive periods of research, and with the guidance and drafting expertise of a variety of expert lawyers and legal researchers. As experimental legal forms, the works are intended to operate at the limits of what is legally possible, and to present law as a separate kind of ‘reality’, one with its own inherent subjectivities and points of fissure. I propose to discuss a number of these projects and their implications as both works of art and ‘works of law’.
date: 2014-04-12
oa_status: green
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
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lyricists_name: Young, Carey
lyricists_id: CYOUN65
full_text_status: public
event_title: Association of Art Historians Conference 2014
event_location: Royal College of Art, London, UK
event_dates: 10 April 2014 - 12 April 2014
citation:        Young, C;      (2014)    Subject to Contract: Law as an Artistic Medium. Paper given at Association of Art Historians conference 2014.                     In:   (Proceedings) Association of Art Historians Conference 2014.          Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1426202/2/AAH2014%20Session%20Schedule.pdf