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Category Archives: activist art
Discussion: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social
e-flux has just published my short text “After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social,” therefore, in the spirit of developing and expanding this discussion around issues of pedagogy, abstraction, material production, and social engagement, my … Continue reading
Occupy the Symbolic Economy of Art
Collectively, the amateur and the failed artist represent a vast flat field upon which a privileged few stand out in relief…what if we turned this figure and ground relation inside out by imagining an art world unable to exclude the … Continue reading
Nato Thompson on Living as Form
Last Friday Creative Time held its 3rd annual Summit on socially engaged art, and then simultaneously opened a massive exhibition organized by chief curator Nato Thompson entitled Living as Form at the old Essex Street Market on the Lower East … Continue reading
Diary of Thirst: a blog about art, politics, & culture: 911
Still Waiting for the End of Irony… * Dual testimonials to top-down government arrogance is how artists and activists viewed the World Trade Center towers in the late 70s. First proposed during World War II by Chase Manhattan’s David Rockefeller … Continue reading
Diary of Thirst: a blog about progressive art, politics, & culture
The Revolution is not a Tea Party: In Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise culture I wrote about a group of artists known as the Aaron Burr Society (Brooklyn, NY) who have defiantly re-tooled “the conservative … Continue reading
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Tagged aaron burr, aaron burr society, American Revolution, debt ceiling, jim costanzo, repohistory, tax rebellion, tea party, Wall Street, Whiskey Rebellion
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Oslo shooter, Dark Matter, ressentiment
Below is an excerpt from the last section of Chapter 4 of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture. Though it was written several years ago I think it might have some relevance to debates surrounding … Continue reading