Economic Ekphrasis
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Erik Wikberg (Eds.)
Economic Ekphrasis: Goldin+Senneby and Art for Business Education
With contributions by Clare Birchall, Ismail Ertürk, Marie-Louise Fendin, Goldin+Senneby, Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Katie Kitamura, Maria Lind, Pamela, Schultz Nybacka, Anastasia Seregina, Örjan Sjöberg, Emma Stenström, Lars Strannegård, Erik Wikberg, Brian Kuan Wood. Part of the SSE Art Initiative series Experiments in Art and Capitalism. Published by Sternberg Press, 2021.
Economic Ekphrasis proposes a new model for arts-based business education. Using the Stockholm-wide exhibition “Standard Length of a Miracle” by conceptual artist duo Goldin+Senneby as a case study, the book rethinks relevant business studies with art created inside the back-office realities of financialized capitalism. While “ekphrasis” means literary descriptions of visual art, Economic Ekphrasis challenges scholars of art, finance, and management to see new aspects of financialized life that have been obscured by mainstream approaches.
“Goldin+Senneby’s multidimensional art-economic interventions are iconic reference points for artists working with finance. Essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of art and business today.”
— Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Artist, founder of New Eelam
“The practices of Economic Ekphrasis show how art, beyond traditional critique or celebration, can generate unforeseen perspectives that challenge, tackle, and irritate capitalism.”
— Daniel Birnbaum, Professor of Philosophy, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Director, Acute Art, London
“The concept of Economic Ekphrasis is a clever proposal to avoid falling into the pitfall of reducing the place of art in a business school to an instrumental function.”
— Ève Chiapello, Professor and Director of Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris