Kickstarter has an all-or-nothing policy that states you must reach your goal before receiving any money. If people like their project, they donate money to support it. An author can use the money for publishing or distribution costs, to upgrade to a better distributor, or to pay for the costs of the book publicist hired to give your book the push it needs. Here’s how Kickstarter works: Project creators join Kickstarter and set a funding goal and deadline. Since its inception in 2009, there have been 165,189 successfully funded projects for more than 5 billion dollars! Although the majority of projects raise less than $10,000, an increasing number have reached six, seven, and even eight figures. Kickstarter is a for-profit company that was created to support creative projects (for a 5% fee against the funds collected) because they believe creative projects make for a better world. It is a website that gives authors, musicians, app developers, inventors and others the opportunity to recruit people to support their creative project. Kickstarter is an invaluable resource for authors who would like to raise some money for their books. Writers continue to recruit sponsors and patrons to promote their books and help them earn a spot on the best-seller list without clearing all of their savings. Things haven’t changed as sponsorships are still important for creative people, including writers. Architect Eyal Weizman identifies the role of the roundabout as a site of eruption in recent uprisings and revolutions in The Roundabout Revolutions from the Critical Spatial Practice series.Hundreds and even thousands of years ago, it was essential for creative folks to recruit sponsors to help fund their masterpieces so they could succeed.
We turn to artist Amar Kanwar’s video installation The Torn First Pages-referring to the Burmese bookshop owner who was imprisoned for tearing out pages with government propaganda in the books and journals he sold-and scholar and critic Erika Balsom’s essay on this work in Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions Book. Artist and researcher Sonia Boyce reconciles the aesthetic strategies of collage and montage with the political address to racism and nationalism in artworks by Rasheed Araeen and Eddie Chamber, included in The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain. From Conflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere, philosopher Oliver Marchart proposes an aesthetics of agitating, propagating, and organizing. Our series of shared excerpts continues with a fifth installment focusing on issues of democracy and protest.
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