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Occupy and the End of Socially Engaged Art
Yates McKee
“We strike art in order to liberate art from itself.”
—MTL 1
In the fall of 2008, at the height of both the electoral season and the global financial crisis, a sprawling exhibition entitled Democracy in America was set up by the public arts organization Creative Time for one week inside the Armory building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The title of the project at once ironized de Tocqueville’s infamous celebration of the “exceptional” nature of US political culture,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2016
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Occupy, Socially Engaged Art, Exhibition Histories, Art Activism, Protests & Demonstrations