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# 89
Art Populism and the Alter-Institutional Turn
Marco Baravalle
These kinds of artistic practices invest in the creation of social relationships that are on the side of the commons and against neoliberal dictates and reactionary populism (which are only apparently in opposition). When art chooses this side, it doesn’t adhere to an ideology; rather, it questions emerging ideological tendencies and operates according to a materialistic logic in order to realize the common through the free distribution of knowledge and means of production, as well as through the creation of new algorithms and the reinvention of institutional infrastructures. Beyond neoliberal capture and against populist recruitment.
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 7, 2018
Category
Populism, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Automonia & Operaismo, Relational Aesthetics, Art Activism