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The politics of contemporary art biennials : spectacles of critique, theory and art
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ISBN: 9780367376680 0367376687 9781138184589 1138184586 9781315645049 9781317290810 1317290828 1315645041 1317290836 Year: 2017 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta X, the new biennial blends the modalities of protest with a neoliberal politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question and often boycotted in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book argues that biennials both denunciate the aesthetic as bourgeois category and simultaneously replicate and diffuse an exclusive sociability across social landscapes.


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Art and activism in the age of globalization

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Should artists be activists? Is activist art one of an artist’s primary responsibilities or a pointless sideshow on the fringes of serious politics? The philosopher, writer and art historian Lieven de Cauter, Ruben de Roo and Karel Vanhaesebrouck explore this theme in collaboration with other thinkers and doers in his new book Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization. In a time of globalization, populism, hypercapitalism, migration, War on Terror, and global warming, artistic engagement is vital. Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization takes the measure of contemporary activist art. What is the role of art and activism in the polarized, populist society of the spectacle? Art & Activism examines both the criticism of engagement as a mere pose and the need for cultural activism in today’s society. Urban activism and activism by anonymous networks are also investigated. Special attention is devoted to the effects of the War on Terror on activism in practice. The book concludes with a theoretical framework for contemporary activism and an impassioned plea for genuinely political art. Lieven de Cauter, Ruben De Roo and Karel Vanhaesebrouck co-edited Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization. Contributors include BAVO, Rosi Braidotti, Pippo Delbono, Pascal Gielen, Brian Holmes André Gattolin & Thierry Lefebvre, Rudi Laermans, Dieter Lesage and Jennifer Flores Sternad.

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politics --- kunstsociologie --- community art --- art [fine art] --- art theory --- politiek --- Sociology of cultural policy --- Iconography --- politieke kunst --- globalisering --- globalization --- Politics in art. --- Arts --- Art and social action. --- Social problems in art. --- Art and globalization. --- Art, Modern --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects --- 745 --- #SBIB:316.7C200 --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- 316.7 --- 711 --- 72 --- 73 --- Internationalism --- Engagement (Philosophy) --- Art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Aesthetics --- Involvement (Philosophy) --- Participation --- Philosophy --- Intellectual cooperation --- International cooperation --- Cosmopolitanism --- International education --- Nationalism --- 73 Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur --- Beeldhouwkunst. Sculptuur --- 72 Architectuur. Bouwkunst --- Architectuur. Bouwkunst --- 711 Ruimtelijke ordening. Planologie. Stedebouw --- Ruimtelijke ordening. Planologie. Stedebouw --- 316.7 Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Cultuursociologie --(algemeen) --- Proza - Essay --- Sociologie van de cultuuruitingen: algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- 008 --- 930.8 --- 32 --- 316 --- 316.334.54 --- Globalisatie --- Cultuur --- Culturele identiteit --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuur (geschiedenis) --- Politiek --- Politieke wetenschappen --- Sociologie --- Cultuursociologie --- Bewonersparticipatie --- 7.01 --- 72.01 --- Kunsttheorie ; 21ste eeuw ; over kunst en politiek activisme --- Kunst en maatschappijkritiek --- Sociaal geëngageerde kunst --- Globalisering --- Stedelijk activisme ; urban activism --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- political art --- 72 Architecture --- Architecture --- Politique dans l'art --- Problèmes sociaux dans l'art --- Art et mondialisation --- Aspect politique --- Artists --- Problèmes sociaux dans l'art --- Attitudes --- Art. --- 73 Plastic arts --- Plastic arts --- Art, Primitive --- Philosophie de l'art --- Activisme --- Mondialisation --- art [discipline]

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