e-flux Journal #9
<p>The aesthetics of political engagement has become common currency within artistic production and discourse, and the abundance of works and exhibitions now announcing themselves as politically charged are often criticized for their distance from actual social forces outside art. While institutional critique successfully identified certain parallels between these forces and the workings of art institutions, it seems that this has simply given way to a more nuanced (and however richer) discourse for understanding the way power operates within the micro-economy of art itself. Through this, a collective desire for some form of rupture within art has come to constitute an economy of precious theoretical objects all its own—judged and appraised by their capacity to symbolically dismantle the current regime…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Subjects of the American Moon: From Studio as Reality to Reality as Studio</b><br /> François Bucher</p> <p><b>ALPHABETIZATION, Part I: Protocol and Proficiency</b><br /> Luis Camnitzer</p> <p><b>Becoming Tarden — Prologue</b><br /> Jill Magid</p> <p><b>(Under)Privileged Spaces: On Martha Rosler’s “If You Lived Here…”</b><br /> Nina Möntmann</p> <p><b>Positively Trojan Horses Revisited</b><br /> Simon Sheikh</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, François Bucher, Luis Camnitzer, Jill Magid, Nina Möntmann, Simon Sheikh
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625