CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Financial Structures and Practices on the Art Market

The workshop, Financial Structures and Practices, is part of the International Workshops Series “Tools for the Future: Researching art market Practices from Past to Present”, jointly founded by Elisabetta Lazzaro, professor at the ELIA member Business School for the Creative Industries - University of the Creative Arts, UK, Nathalie Moureau (University Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3) and Adriana Turpin (IESA Art & Culture, Paris and the Society for the History of Collecting, London).

Through individual presentations followed by group discussions, the workshops series aims at bringing together international scholars and professionals from different disciplines, periods of study and areas of practice of the art market to confront key issues and related methods that can be used to interpret, analyse and operate through the structures and principals of the art market.

The art market is a highly entrepreneurial and peripheral market. The banking, funding and support strategies deployed or relied upon by the diverse actors of this art market have given rise to complex transactions, investments, and interest protections.

The sixth workshop, organised by CREW - Centre for Research on the English-speaking World at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and the IESA Arts & Culture, l'École internationale des métiers de la culture et du marché de l'art, will address the money flow that underpins these migrations and transfers – the financial strategies of the art market and the ways in which international or national financial structures influence the ability to purchase or the need to sell and produce.

The workshop will feature the keynote by Professor Bruno Frey, University of Basel and Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Switzerland.

Topic

With contemporary practices the role of money both for galleries management or the artist production has been increasing with the requirement to attend art fair for example and to produce mega pieces. The role of private banks is going to increase with the emergence of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Art loans and art-related holdings by banks and art investment funds such as Artemundi Global Fund or the Artist Pension Trust have shifted and changed the landscape of the arts and creative industries. Equally the financial strategies of nation states and resulting financial legislation have an impact of the purchase and investment in art or the support of contemporary artists.

This conference invites new and existing research around the money flow in art markets, the evolution of financial strategies and their dynamics. – with an ongoing focus and discussion on the tools, techniques, research methods and strategies which help us gain an understanding of the dynamics of art markets past and present.

Conference topics will include, among others:

• The value of art capital
• Art as an asset class
• The financial circuit of art
• Art’s reaction to economic crises
• Depictions of marketplaces, transactions and enterprises in art
• Cultural policies, support and economic institutionalisation
• Art investment funds
• Fintech and the art market
• Free ports and the art market

Paper submission and deadlines

They welcome submissions of rigorous quantitative, theoretical, and/or qualitative studies contributing to the topic illustrated above. They particularly appreciate submissions from different disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities as well as interdisciplinary.

Please submit your abstract of 300 words with a short biography to Bénédicte Miyamoto (benedicte.miyamoto@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr) and Adriana Turpin (a.turpin@iesa.fr) by 15 January, 2021.

Notification of acceptance will be given by 1 February.

We request that you send a final draft of your paper to the chair by 5 June, 2021.

Find out more here.

Scientific Committee

Prof. Elisabetta Lazzaro, Business School for the Creative Industries - University of the Creative Arts, UK

Dr. Bénédicte Miyamoto, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France

Prof. Nathalie Moureau, ART-Dev University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France

Prof. Adriana Turpin, IESA, Paris & Institute of Historical Research, London, United Kingdom