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oapen-20.500.12657-515552021-11-20T02:51:26Z The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials Kompatsiaris, Panos activism art history contemporary art curating economics exhibition museum studies Occupy politics visual culture bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AB The arts: general issues bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GM Museology & heritage studies Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta X, the new biennial blends the modalities of protest with a neoliberal politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question and often boycotted in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book argues that biennials both denunciate the aesthetic as bourgeois category and simultaneously replicate and diffuse an exclusive sociability across social landscapes. 2021-11-19T16:23:25Z 2021-11-19T16:23:25Z 2017 book ONIX_20211119_9781317290834_8 9781317290834 9781138184589 9780367376680 9781315645049 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51555 eng Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781317290834.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315645049 10.4324/9781315645049 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781317290834 9781138184589 9780367376680 9781315645049 Routledge 206 open access
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Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis and Frantz Fanon share the same ground with neoliberal cultural policy makers and creative entrepreneurs. Building on the legacy of events that conjoin art, critical theory and counterculture, from Nova Convention to documenta X, the new biennial blends the modalities of protest with a neoliberal politics of creativity. This book examines a strained period for these high art institutions, a period when their politics are brought into question and often boycotted in the context of austerity, crisis and the rise of Occupy cultures. Using the 3rd Athens Biennale and the 7th Berlin Biennale as its main case studies, it looks at how the in-built tensions between the domains of art and politics take shape when spectacular displays attempt to operate as immediate activist sites. Drawing on ethnographic research and contemporary cultural theory, this book argues that biennials both denunciate the aesthetic as bourgeois category and simultaneously replicate and diffuse an exclusive sociability across social landscapes.
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