POLITICALLY UNBECOMING

From biennials and installations to participatory practices, contemporary art has come to embrace an aesthetic of democratization. A rt's capacity for democracy building now defines its contemporary relevance, part of a broader, global glorification of democracy as , it seems, the only legitimate model of politics. Yet numerous artists reject the alignment of art and democracy -- in part because democracy has been associated not only with utopian political visions but also with neoliberal incursions and military intervention s. It is...[Llegir més]