The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials
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 th...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1595492025-05-16T06:23:42Z The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials Kompatsiaris, Panos art history visual culture curating exhibition politics economics activism Occupy contemporary art museum studies western world occupy cultures biennial politics neoliberal politics of creativity Young Man Contra Dictions Berlin Biennale 13th Istanbul Biennial Japanese Film Critic Contemporary Art Biennials Public Engagements Contemporary Biennial Direct Democracy Minute Responsibility Common Language Large Scale Art Events Chto Delat Muslim World Discursive Exhibition Nationalist Articulations thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABA Theory of art thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology 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. 2025-05-16T06:23:40Z 2025-05-16T06:23:40Z 2025-05-15T10:06:44Z 2017 book ONIX_20250515T115059_9781317290834_56 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101806 9781317290834 9781317290827 9781138184589 9780367376680 9781317290810 9781315645049 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159549 eng Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101806/1/9781317290834.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315645049 10.4324/9781315645049 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781317290834 9781317290827 9781138184589 9780367376680 9781317290810 9781315645049 Routledge 206 Oxford open access |
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