Preliminary communication
Constrained motion of cultural production: possibilities for social engagement in art from the perspective of developing cultural industries in Slovenia
Lidija Krienzer - Radojević
Abstract
Although political or social engagement of an individual artist is normally considered as a matter of personal (and free) choice, his or her decision is conditioned by a wider social context created by institutions and rules. From this perspective the institutional changes are of particular importance if one is to consider the question of political or social engagement of an artist. The analysis in the article focuses on the major institutional changes in the field of culture in Slovenia since the beginning of the 1990s. The expansion of capitalist relations in Slovenia, which was part of the broader process of global capitalist restructuring since the end of the 1980s, initiated the institutional change that altered the role of the cultural sphere and its socio-political effects. Up to the recent National Culture Programme that defines the future culture in Slovenia as the product of the cultural or creative industry, the development of capitalist relations in the field of culture could be divided in two periods.The main social effect of the institutional reframing in the 1990s has been the introduction of the market entrepreneurial model, whereas the institutional changes in the 2000s enabled post-socialist Slovenia to integrate into the global capitalist regulation of the cultural sphere.
Keywords
institutional change; capitalist relations; cultural production; state; market
Hrčak ID:
185534
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2015.
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