The price club

The collection "Positions" is dedicated to the publishing of artists' writings. John Miller's essays clearly embody the aims of this series: to question artistic and curatorial practice and theory from the singular position of an artist involved in both his own and other artists' work.

For Miller, this production/reception issue is a genuine dialectic. From the outset he has argued that the artist has no choice but to address sociopolitical questions and the ideological apparatuses linked to the production of cultural "artefacts". To (re)conceive these dimensions of artmaking Miller also confronts a broad theoretical corpus (Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School, or feminist and poststructuralist criticism).

From "polemical" pieces to extensive theoretical essays, through studies on Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, and John Baldessari, the texts collected here respond to the ongoing collision of esthetics and exchange value.