{"product_id":"espinosa-guillermo-mono-kultur-49-santiago-sierra-anti-avarice-acts-9783949587009","title":"mono.kultur #49 \/ Santiago Sierra: Anti Avarice Acts","description":"\"showing a spark of he persistent evil that is out there.” \u003cbr\u003eAutumn 2021 \/ English \/ 15 x 20 cm \/ 56 Pages \/ 16 Fold-Outs \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead a longform interview with infamous Spanish artist Santiago Sierra\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSantiago 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With mono.kultur, Santiago Sierra talked about the mechanics of exploitation, the price of controversy, and the joy in vandalism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Interview by Guillermo Espinosa \u003cbr\u003e Works by Santiago Sierra \u003cbr\u003eDesign by mono.studio \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\"","brand":"mono.kultur","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53131104420182,"sku":"9783949587009-G","price":49.39,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9783949587009_1.jpg?v=1782324787","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/espinosa-guillermo-mono-kultur-49-santiago-sierra-anti-avarice-acts-9783949587009","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}