This event is not the only cause for our discomfort. We’ve been ill at ease for quite some time, and that is something at least some of the artists invited here will share. We are uncomfortable with what we might call the genre-fication of Political Art as it has emerged over the last 20 years. This genre-fication is a regime of proscribed visibility, an order of keyword providers, arranged discourses, tight speaker’s slots, minimal organization times, precarious divisions of labor, character counts, layout regulations, and expensive tickets - so many unquestioned institutional executives, all temporally organized by the acquisition and distribution of funding, and sped up by a permanent fear of losing relevance or even a basic meaning.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:23:00 +0000
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