Mithu Sen, How to be A SUCKcessfull artist

How to be a SUCKsuccessful Artist, 2019, is a black-and-white instructional video that uses “poker face” satire to address the avarice of the art world and the models of capitalistic productivity that it prioritizes, especially in relation to artists of the Global South. The video rolls behind the image of the artist performing a pedagogical satire as a goddess who battles the demons of the world with her many flailing arms. The work is tongue-in-cheek and joins other works of institutional critique such as those of Andrea Fraser or, more notably, Lee Lozano’s General Strike Piece (1969).