Anonymous Comrade writes:


rogressive Art Institutions in the Age of Dissolving Welfare States

The new issue of the multilingual republicart web-journal is now online-

In the institutions of the art field the indissoluble link between power and resistance, as described by Foucault and Deleuze, is especially evident. Progressive art institutions try to act as buffers against the influence of state and capital on critical art practices, but at the same time function as machines of a soft instrumentalization of resistance.

The essays in the new issue of the republicart web-journal discuss strategies and alliances between activist art practices and progressive art institutions that are capable of providing artistic criticism with the small advantages needed, especially as the welfare state increasingly dissolves.

http://republicart.net/disc/institution/index.htm

Contents

Marius Babias: Reconquering Subjectivity.

Kokerei Zollverein | Contemporary Art and Criticism

Beatrice von Bismarck: Academy Effects. Project Work as Emancipatory Practice

Charles Esche: What's the Point of Art Centres Anyway? - Possibility, Art and Democratic Deviance

Brian Holmes: A Rising Tide of Contradiction. Museums in the Age of the Expanding Workfare State

Gerald Raunig: The Double Criticism of parrhesia. Answering the Question "What is a Progressive (Art)Institution?"

Jorge Ribalta: Mediation and Construction of Publics. The MACBA Experience

Dorothee Richter: Strategic Operations
Katya Sander: Criticizing Institutions? The Logic of Institutionalization in the Danish Welfare State

Simon Sheikh: Public Spheres and the Functions of Progressive Art Institutions

Gregory Sholette: Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: In and Beyond the Post Cold-War Art Museum

---

eipcp - european institute for progressive cultural policies

a-1060 vienna, gumpendorfer strasse 63b
contact@eipcp.net

www.eipcp.net

www.republicart.net