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mono.kultur #49 / Santiago Sierra: Anti Avarice Acts
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Autumn 2021 / English / 15 x 20 cm / 56 Pages / 16 Fold-Outs
Read a longform interview with infamous Spanish artist Santiago Sierra
Santiago Sierra is perhaps best known for his infamous ‘remunerated actions’, in which he hires the poor and desperate at minimum wage to undertake pointless and degrading tasks. They include prostitutes having a line tattooed across their backs for the price of a shot of heroin; war veterans paid to face a corner of a gallery like scolded school kids; a young boy hired to polish the shoes of visitors during an exhibition opening.
Sierra’s remunerated actions are intentionally humiliating, offensive, and arguably immoral, pushing the worlds of art and privilege face first into a nightmarish and desperate reality of the less fortunate. Exploitation is their mortar, despair is their bottom line.
Not surprisingly, Sierra’s works have frequently generated not only consternation and discussion, but public outrage. Again and again, pieces have been removed or cancelled, banned from YouTube, and publicly condemned by politicians and the press. But if anything, the debates around his actions bear testimony to their relentless effectiveness. Condensing complex and charged issues of capitalism, injustice, power, racism, migration, poverty, and greed into minimal and brutal gestures, Sierra’s work maintains that rare and unpredictable capacity to shock.
With mono.kultur, Santiago Sierra talked about the mechanics of exploitation, the price of controversy, and the joy in vandalism.
Interview by Guillermo Espinosa
Works by Santiago Sierra
Design by mono.studio
mono.kultur is an independent interview series based in Berlin. Our concept is as simple as it is elegant: one artist / one conversation / one issue. No more, no less. And so each publication is dedicated exclusively and entirely to one artist, edited with care and in close collaboration with the artist. Each issue is redesigned entirely around the artist and their work."
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 56
- Release Date:
- 2021-08-19
- Publication Date:
- 2021-08-19
- Publisher:
- mono.kultur
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 3949587004
- Weight:
- 59 g
- Height:
- 0.5 cm
- Width:
- 20 cm
- Thickness:
- 15 cm
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