LAUREL PTAK

Curator, NYC + STHLM


Right now thinking about intellectual property; art's
relationship to labor; the possibilities and limits of
online space as a deterritorialized form of public space

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‘Publishing in Process: Ownership in Question’ is a series of public seminars at Tensta konsthall inviting artists and writers to present projects and perspectives around the intersection of art, intellectual property, political economy and the public realm. At a moment when the distribution between what is privately owned and publicly shared in society is being fundamentally questioned and protested in many parts of the world, what do notions of production, property, ownership, exchange, surplus and value mean to us right now? Seminars by Florian Schneider, Antonia Hirsch, Marina Vishmidt, Matthew Stadler. Part of a year-long collaborative project between artist Marysia Lewandowska and curator Laurel Ptak, culminating with a book publication in 2013.

‘Publishing in Process: Ownership in Question’ is a series of public seminars at Tensta konsthall inviting artists and writers to present projects and perspectives around the intersection of art, intellectual property, political economy and the public realm.


At a moment when the distribution between what is privately owned and publicly shared in society is being fundamentally questioned and protested in many parts of the world, what do notions of production, property, ownership, exchange, surplus and value mean to us right now? Seminars by Florian Schneider, Antonia Hirsch, Marina Vishmidt, Matthew Stadler.


Part of a year-long collaborative project between artist Marysia Lewandowska and curator Laurel Ptak, culminating with a book publication in 2013.