Neuerscheinung: Conflictual Aesthetics. Von Oliver Marchart
5. August 2019
Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
Berkin: Sternberg Press 2019
Zitation
A new wave of artistic activism has emerged in recent years in response to the ever-increasing dominance of authoritarian neoliberalism. Activist practices in the art field, however, have been around much longer. As Oliver Marchart claims, there has always been an activist undercurrent in art. In this book he traces trajectories of artistic activism in theater, dance, performance, and public art, and investigates the political potential of urbanism, curating, and “biennials of resistance.” What emerges is a conflictual aesthetics that does not conform with traditional approaches to the field and that activates the political potential of artistic practice. (Verlag)
Prof. Dr. Oliver Marchart ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Politische Theorie an der Universität Wien. Von April bis August 2018 war er Fellow des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kollegs Konstanz, wo er zum Thema "Präfiguration und Pre-enactments - Politische und künstlerische Aktionsformen der Zukunft im Jetzt" forschte.