IMPAKT TV #7: Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky and Leigh Claire La Berge

On art labor economics

3 November 2022

18:45 — 19:15

Location: IMPAKT TV online

Our guests for this episode, artists Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky and Leigh Claire La Berge, will talk about art labor economics, their reflections on the festival film programme and the connection between Salomé’s Filming the Police project and Leigh Claire’s Wages Against Artwork.

The host of the episode is Daniela Tenenbaum.

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Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky Leigh Claire La Berge

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky

― Speaker

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. Her first book, The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor (Duke University Press, 2020), won the 2021 Best First Book Prize from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Social Identities, Hispanófila, and in The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema. Skvirsky’s current project, “Filming the Police,” is supported by a Howard Foundation grant and a Mellon New Directions fellowship and will involve formal training in legal media studies. She is a co-editor at Critical Inquiry.

Leigh Claire La Berge

― Speaker

Leigh Claire La Berge is on faculty at the City University of New York, and a 2021-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. She is the author of numerous works of economics-oriented criticism, including the books Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (Oxford: 2014) and Wages against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art (Duke, 2019), and the co-editor of Reading Capitalist Realism (Iowa, 2014). Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary is forthcoming in 2023 with Duke University Press.

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