Structurally, what takes place on the social level is permanently blended out from artistic production. There is a separation between the idea and performance of artistic practice on the one hand, and real artistic production on the other. Artistic practice is something that I\u2019ve learnt at the academy perhaps, something that is established in discourses or itself is a discourse, is canonised as a form of producing pictures, images, objects, situations and so on. But with this I\u2019m not yet on the level of social production; in other words, it\u2019s not yet clear as to how and with what I can pay the rent. This means that when I broach the issue of what I do as an artist, then I do so from a position that is already always in the artistic field \u2013 and very rarely do I speak about myself as a producer within social relations operating in the working area of \u201cart\u201d. It is very difficult to overcome the separation between artistic practice and artistic production, although it is in fact being permanently reproduced \u2013 and so experienced \u2013 by most who are artistically active. Ultimately, relations of production decide on financial availability and commitments \u2013 and not, abstractly, the artistic practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"