Conflictual aesthetics : artistic activism and the public sphere / Oliver Marchart.

Main entry:

Marchart, Oliver, author.

Title & Author:

Conflictual aesthetics : artistic activism and the public sphere / Oliver Marchart.

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

189 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
I. Positions -- Being agitated--agitated being: art and activisim in times of perennial protest -- II. The stage, the street, and the institution -- Staging the political: (counter)publics and the theatricality of acting -- Dancing politics: political reflections on choreography, dance, and protest -- Art, space, and the public sphere(s): on public art, urbanism, and political theory -- The curatorial function: organizing the ex/position -- The globalization of art and the 'biennials of resistance': a history of the biennials from the periphery -- Time loops: a postscript on pre-enactments.

Summary:

A new wave of artistic activism has emerged in recent years in response to the ever-increasing dominance of authoritarian neoliberalism. Activist practices in the art field, however, have been around much longer. As Oliver Marchart claims, there has always been an activist undercurrent in art. In this book he traces trajectories of artistic activism in theater, dance, performance, and public art, and investigates the political potential of urbanism, curating, and?biennials of resistance.? What emerges is a conflictual aesthetics that does not conform with traditional approaches to the field and that activates the political potential of artistic practice.00Oliver Marchart is a political theorist and philosopher. He is currently professor of political theory at the University of Vienna. His books include Post-foundational Political Thought: Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau (2007), Thinking Antagonism: Political Ontology after Laclau (2018), and the forthcoming Post-foundational Theories of Democracy: Reclaiming Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

ISBN:

9783956792045 (paperback)
3956792041 (paperback)

Subject:

Ästhetik Zusammenstellung
Art Political aspects.
Public art.
Aesthetics.
Art Aspect politique.
political art.
Aktivismus
Kunst
Öffentlicher Raum
Politisches Handeln

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307742
Call No.: BIB 253224
Status: Available

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