Tag Archives: Art

Through the minds of teenagers

September 10, 2010 – 11:47 am

In the book Participation, Claire Bishop underlines three common aspects of participatory art: the desire to create an active/thinking subject who will be able to formulate their own social/political position from the experience of the work; asserting a socially oriented and egalitarian position for themselves by ceding part of their authorship to participants; and the [...]

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Suggested reading: “Art and Answerability” by Mikhaïl Bakhtin

November 1, 2009 – 5:36 pm

Bakhtin, M. M. “Art and Answerability.”  Art and Answerability : Early Philosophical Essays. Eds. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Art and Answerability, written in 1919, is Mikhail Bakhtin’s first published essay. This early text, written when the author was only 24 years old, is usually recognised as significant for two [...]

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Construction and device

October 29, 2009 – 6:17 pm

The week I spent in Vienna last September was warm and brilliant. One day I was having lunch outdoors at the Kunsthalle on Karlsplatz, a coffeeshop and exhibition space carved in a piece of no planner’s land in the very centre of Vienna, where once the medieval walls stood and I was attracted by the [...]

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53rd Venice Art Biennale preview: Worlds in the making

June 12, 2009 – 4:02 pm

Cutting a board off the wooden floor to expose the raw concrete underneath is nothing essential or minimal at all: all the way round, it creates a new space, polydimensional in its depth and bidimensional in the game of references to the very floorboard we stepped on. These interventions on space and time are powerful dismissals of a geocentrism/egocentrism still dwelling in our minds centuries after Copernicus.

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