Art, Labor, and the Politics of Consumption

Book Presentation

Jelena Micić’s artistic practice examines entanglements of labor, consumption, and the metabolic flows of capital. Engaging feminist materialism, post-socialist transitions, and the afterlives of industrial production, how can art render visible the toxic persistence of synthetic matter and the infrastructures of global value extraction? How might non-aligned histories disrupt hegemonic aesthetic and economic orders?

Jelena Micić, artist, Vienna
Elke Krasny, cultural theorist, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Kristin Romberg, art historian, University of Illinois, USA (online)
Heidrun Rosenberg, art historian, University of Vienna
Lorena Tabares Salamanca, writer, curator, Colombia / Portugal

Jelena Micić, Bojna polja, Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2025