For artists already participating in the art market, appropriating the tools of finance may help them to gain more control and protection in this financializing field. Art Investment 2014-Art Asset 1 is a tactical intervention by this author that is grounded in institutional critique methods – including Bourdieuian sociological analysis – that uses scraped stock market data-feeds to visualize the performance of companies on the Skate’s Art Stock Index (SASI). The SASI is an art industry index fund that provides investors with access to the art market without buying art. Art indexes such as the SASI reduce the impact of an artist’s work to a data-point averaged alongside the expected quarterly profit of major auction houses. As such, the SASI represents a total financial abstraction. Examination reveals the index’s lack of objectivity and raises doubts about its ability to represent the industry. Art market financialization threatens to shift the field from pre-capitalist logic, which disavows profit-seeking, towards increasingly profit-driven motives, leading to financial abstraction and the transposition of technical obscurity from the field of finance. Art Investment 2014-AA1 makes the SASI into an artwork: its placement in a museum underscores the role of the museum in the market. The ‘art index as art’ exposes and inverts the logic of art investment, while questioning assumptions underpinning the art index: including the notion that value can be financially abstracted from art objects. Despite the discontinuation of the SASI, art market financialization shows no signs of diminishing, and there is still room for creative intervention.

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作为艺术的艺术索引

对于已经涉足艺术市场的艺术家而言，借助金融工具，或许可以帮助他们在这个金融化领域获得更多的控制和保护。Art Investment 2014-Art Asset 1 是作者的一项战术干预，基于制度批判方法——包括布尔迪厄社会学分析——使用刮取的股票市场数据源来可视化公司在 Skate 艺术股票指数 (SASI) 上的表现. SASI 是一个艺术产业指数基金，为投资者提供进入艺术市场的机会，而无需购买艺术品。SASI 等艺术指数将艺术家作品的影响降低到与主要拍卖行预期季度利润一起平均的数据点。因此，SASI 代表了一个完整的财务抽象。检查显示该指数缺乏客观性，并引发对其代表行业能力的怀疑。艺术市场金融化可能使该领域从拒绝逐利的前资本主义逻辑转向越来越受利润驱动的动机，导致金融领域的金融抽象和技术晦涩的转变。艺术投资 2014-AA1 使 SASI 成为一件艺术品：它在博物馆中的放置强调了博物馆在市场中的作用。“作为艺术的艺术指数”揭示并颠倒了艺术投资的逻辑，同时质疑了支撑艺术指数的假设：包括价值可以从艺术品中提取的财务概念。尽管 SASI 终止，但艺术市场的金融化并没有减弱的迹象，