Marketing, art and voices of dissent: Promotional methods of protest art by the 2014 Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

Georgios Patsiaouras*, Anastasia Veneti, William Green

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Limited research exists around the interrelationships between protest camps and marketing practices. In this article, we focus on the 2014 Hong Kong protest camps as a context where artistic work was innovatively developed and imaginatively promoted to draw global attention. Collecting and analysing empirical data from the Umbrella Movement, our findings explore the interrelationships between arts marketing technologies and the creativity and artistic expression of the protest camps so as to inform, update and rethink arts marketing theory itself. We discuss how protesters used public space to employ inventive methods of audience engagement, participation and co-creation of artwork, together with media art projects which aimed not only to promote their collective aims but also to educate and inform citizens. While some studies have already examined the function of arts marketing beyond traditional and established artistic institutions, our findings offer novel insights into the promotional techniques of protest art within the occupied space of a social movement. Finally, we suggest avenues for future research around the artwork of social movements that could highlight creative and political aspects of (arts) marketing theory.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)75-100
Number of pages26
JournalMarketing Theory
Volume18
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2018

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Keywords

  • Arts marketing theory
  • promotion
  • protest art
  • social movements
  • Umbrella Movement

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Marketing

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