Provoking the Freeport Magic: Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism coffee and graphic designer Stuart Geddes

and graphic designer Stuart Geddes

“But in the understanding of someone who sought to propose and build interventions in public space

crafting new sensory worlds and revealing realms where infinity is merely a fragment of something greater: ourselves

conducted over two decades

over a hundred images

Provoking the Freeport Magic: Art Assemblage in Late Capitalism coffee and graphic designer Stuart GeddesWhat is magic and what can it do? In this book, Jessica Backsell investigates the magic of the art world and cultures persistent tendency to present art as emblematic of an alternative value system. Using the empirical example of the freeport luxury storage facilities where valuable artworks are kept for preservation and tax purposes Backsell examines the implications of viewing the art world through its contingent entanglements and practices.