Unlicensed: Bootlegging as Creative Practice
Over the last few decades the term âbootleggingââa practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringersâhas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing ideologies, to acts of high fashion dĂ©tournement.Â
UNLICENSED contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging. The conversations in UNLICENSED investigate bootleggingâs creative and critical potential, and explore new ways bootlegging can be deployed in order to thrive as an impactful cultural force.
- 432 pages
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Over the last few decades the term âbootleggingââa practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringersâhas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate branding, social media, and the creative industry as a whole. Today, bootlegging has become fetishized as an aesthetic in and of itself, influencing everything from underground record labels to DIY T-shirts, publishing ideologies, to acts of high fashion dĂ©tournement.Â
UNLICENSED contains twenty-one interviews with a range of creative practitioners on the topic of bootlegging. The conversations in UNLICENSED investigate bootleggingâs creative and critical potential, and explore new ways bootlegging can be deployed in order to thrive as an impactful cultural force.
- 432 pages
