"Peanuts minus Schulz : Distributed Labor as a Compositional Practice" brings together a selection of comic strips home-brewed by over one thousand deskilled microworkers from twenty different countries commissioned through digital labor services. The operation consists in the reproduction of iconic comic strips using a number of variations devised by Ilan Manouach (DAI, 2017). Join Ilan at Printed Matter's Virtual Art Book Fair where he will be discussing his new book with scholar and international expert on radical forms of textual expression, Dr. Craig Dworkin and JBE publisher David Desrimais. Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, 4pm EST
Artist and researcher Ilan Manouach advances conceptual comics as an artistic practice devised to disrupt the myth of the solitary genius through the glorification of craftsmanship and fictions of artistic ethos and integrity. Conceptual comics aims to distance source artworks to make the claim for an expanded agency, in this case for the sake of microworkers as a whole.
The operation Peanuts minus Schulz reveals the mechanisms at work behind creativity in the making and the potential of the art form in flux when it is informed by the peripheral vision of the interconnected precariat.
Find also here the paper Ilan wrote on the book.