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From Islands of Commons to Collective Autonomy
Mary N. Taylor and Janet Sarbanes in conversation
What would it mean to position the autonomy of art and art institutions in alignment with, rather than in opposition to, autonomous politics? What would it mean to take seriously Castoriadis’s notion that art only exists by questioning meaning as it is each time established, and by creating other forms for it? What would it mean to extend that to the meaning and mutability of art institutions, the places where art is made, distributed, and received? Here again, autonomy is not about separation or non-relation, but about the capacity to transform.
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 10, 2023
Subjects
The Commons, Autonomy, Eastern Europe, Art Activism