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![Piero Manzoni [1961] Artist's Shit (Merda d'artista). 90 tin cans, each filled with 30 grams faeces, 4.8 x 6.5 cm.](//img.artrabbit.com/events/marx-the-fetishism-of-the-commodity-and-its-secret/images/Rhd7ufhqkahR/460x460/Piero-Manzoni-1961-Artist-s-Shit-Merda-d-artista-90-tin-cans-each-filled-with-30-grams-faeces-4-8-x-6-5-cm.jpg)
Piero Manzoni [1961] Artist's Shit (Merda d'artista). 90 tin cans, each filled with 30 grams faeces, 4.8 x 6.5 cm.
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Nkonde. Yombe people, Lower Zaire. Wood, nails, wooden spear and fabric. Height 97cm. Musee Barbier-Mueller, Geneva.
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Female power figure, Vili people.19th century, Democratic Republic of Congo. Wood, textile, metal, small animal skull, 55.9×17.8×17.8cm. Birmingham Museum of Art.
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Fetish market in Lomé, Togo. Photo by Torsten Lenk, 2012.
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![Johan Zoffany [1772 - 77] Tribuna of the Uffizi. Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 155cm.](//img.artrabbit.com/events/marx-the-fetishism-of-the-commodity-and-its-secret/images/V67vEoT52KVT/579x460/Johan-Zoffany-1772-77-Tribuna-of-the-Uffizi-Oil-on-canvas-123-5-x-155cm-depicts-commodity-fetishism-metamorphosis-of-oil-paintings-into-culture-industry-products.jpg)
Johan Zoffany [1772 - 77] Tribuna of the Uffizi. Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 155cm.
![Piero Manzoni [1961] Artist's Shit (Merda d'artista). 90 tin cans, each filled with 30 grams faeces, 4.8 x 6.5 cm.](http://img.artrabbit.com/events/marx-the-fetishism-of-the-commodity-and-its-secret/images/FSHRf829ENFu/1000x1000/Piero-Manzoni-1961-Artist-s-Shit-Merda-d-artista-90-tin-cans-each-filled-with-30-grams-faeces-4-8-x-6-5-cm.jpg)
![Johan Zoffany [1772 - 77] Tribuna of the Uffizi. Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 155cm.](http://img.artrabbit.com/events/marx-the-fetishism-of-the-commodity-and-its-secret/images/O0bFm20Z9HGy/1280x1016/Johan-Zoffany-1772-77-Tribuna-of-the-Uffizi-Oil-on-canvas-123-5-x-155cm-depicts-commodity-fetishism-metamorphosis-of-oil-paintings-into-culture-industry-products.jpg)
Event
Marx: The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret
10 Feb 2017
Event times
6pm-8:30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 10 Riverside Yard
- Riverside Road
- London
- SW17 0BB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Underground: Tooting Broadway
- Rail: Earlsfield
Monthly reading group for artists, curators, writers, researchers and anyone interested in the intersections between art practice and critical theory.
About
In February we're reading “The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret”, from Karl Marx's Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, first published 1867 in Hamburg.
A fetish is a man-made object that has been invested with certain properties and power. The object is thus perceived to be animated with power and influence. In fact, these properties have been transferred to the object by humans (producers or users), who lose their own power in the process. Marx uses the metaphor of the fetish to demonstrate that humans misperceive the social relations between people in their labour as ‘material relations between persons and social relations between things’. The concept of commodity fetishism can therefore be applied to other forms of reification, where abstract concepts are objectified in physical things that are considered to have intrinsic value.
The event is free but due to limited capacity booking is required. Please visit the website for more information, to book and download the shared document.
[SYMPOSIUM] is a supportive community of peers who get together to discuss their research interests around selected texts. Join us every second Friday of the month at a different venue. Everyone can propose and chair the reading of a text on a selective and voluntary basis.
