27 documents
Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 21, 2022
Subjects
Video Art, Protests & Demonstrations, Arab Spring, Occupy
Institution
# 80
Assemblism
Jonas Staal
New Authoritarian World Order
To build an effective resistance mobilized by a new collectivity, we must understand and change the lines of division imposed upon us by an authoritarian world order. Today, we are living under a growing, global network of extremist authoritarian regimes: from Trump in the United States to Temer in Brazil, from ultranationalists and fascists rising throughout Europe to Erdoğan in Turkey, and from Putin in Russia to Modi in India. This ultranationalist and…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 3, 2017
Category
Bodies, Performance
Subjects
Protests & Demonstrations, Occupy, Art Activism
# 76
Who Makes the Nazis?
Sven Lütticken
In the current political and social catastrophe, the denizens of the art world overwhelmingly take the position of concerned liberals, shaking their heads in disbelief at the rise of Trump, Le Pen, Wilders, UKIP, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Pegida, and so on. Let’s call it Wolfgang Tillmans Syndrome. The photographer, who in the run-up to the Brexit referendum launched a pro-EU poster campaign, is the perfect poster boy for the EU and the international metropolitan lifestyle it…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 5, 2016
Category
Nationalism, Economy, Fascism
Subjects
Art Activism, Xenophobia, Occupy
# 72
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
# 62
The Common in the Time of Creative Reproductions: On Gerald Raunig’s Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity
Ewa Majewska
What relationship is there between the work of art and communication? None at all. A work of art is not an instrument of communication. A work of art has nothing to do with communication. A work of art does not contain the least bit of information. In contrast, there is a fundamental affinity between a work of art and an act of resistance.
—Gilles Deleuze
After Art and Revolution , A Thousand Machines , and texts and interventions in defense of public education,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2015
Category
Philosophy, Education
Subjects
Automonia & Operaismo, Academia, Mass Media & Entertainment, Occupy
# 56
Running Along the Disaster: A Conversation with Franco “Bifo” Berardi
Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Önder Özengi, and Pelin Tan
Önder Özengi & Pelin Tan (LaborinArt): You wanted to speak about the European crisis, especially its effect on the Mediterranean, the Near East, and the Middle East. What does the collapse of social welfare mean for these territories and countries?
Franco “Bifo” Berardi (FBB): After May 25, we must be able to say that the “European experiment” is over. The impressive result that the National Front will have in the French elections is going to add the word “end” to this…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2014
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Nationalism, Capitalism
Subjects
Europe, Occupy
Culture Class
Martha Rosler
With the market pressing in on one side and near-poverty on the other, how might artists’ long-standing tendency to identify not with their patrons but rather with the relatively voiceless in society be expressed or suppressed?
e-flux Books
Posted: September 1, 2013
Category
Labor & Work, Land & territory, Photography, Urbanism, Capitalism, Economy
Subjects
Gentrification, Housing & Real Estate, Art Activism, Occupy, Public Space, USA
e-flux
ISTANBUL
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Protests & Demonstrations, Authoritarianism, Occupy
Institution
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art
Disobedience Archive (The Republic)
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 11, 2013
Subjects
Libraries & Archives, Revolution, Art Activism, Socially Engaged Art, Video Art, Autonomy, Arab Spring, Occupy
Institution
# 41
Allegories of Art, Politics, and Poetry
Alan Gilbert
1. Shifting the Landscape
Politics without the imagination is bureaucracy, but the imagination is never a neutral category.
The shantytowns built on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, are the product of civil war, economic turmoil, ethnic struggle, and ecological crisis. Populated by underemployed laborers from the city and displaced peasants from the Andes, frequently of indigenous descent, a number of these shantytowns were originally constructed in the 1970s. 1 In 2002, one of these…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2013
Category
Performance, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Poetry, Occupy, Public Space, Socially Engaged Art
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 1, 2012
Category
Bodies, War & Conflict
Subjects
Occupy, Art Activism, Biopolitics, Everyday Life
# 38
Inside Abstraction
Sven Lütticken
Writing in the German weekly Die Zeit , a novelist and entrepreneur diagnosed the Occupy protests as a “revolt against abstraction,” a revolt that he considered irrational and misguided precisely to the extent that it aimed at abstraction as such. 1 But is it really, fundamentally? It is true that the dizzying complexity of contemporary financial “products” and transactions creates a craving for tools to understand and attack this rarefied sphere. A brochure called Demystifying the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2012
Category
Economy, Modernism, Capitalism, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Abstraction, Occupy, Money & Finance, Protests & Demonstrations
# 38
Breaking the Social Contract
Pelin Tan
Pelin Tan: In Infinitely Demanding , you describe a distinction between active and passive nihilism. As I understand it, this description has a theological basis. You offer Al-Qaeda as an example of active nihilism. However, I have my doubts about this distinction. I think active nihilism cannot be explained in terms of local and specific conditions, since its meaning is based in Western epistemology. Do you think Western thought is capable of explaining oppositional radical movements…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2012
Category
Philosophy, Interviews & Conversations
Subjects
Protests & Demonstrations, Occupy, Arab Spring, State & Government
# 37
Carnival to Commons: Pussy Riot, Punk Protest, and the Exercise of Democratic Culture
Claire Tancons
Once again, the press has dismissed a popular movement as carnival—this time not Occupy Wall Street, but the anti-Putin protests. On March 1, 2012, in a Financial Times article titled “Carnival spirit is not enough to change Russia,” Konstantin von Eggert wrote, “One cannot sustain [the movement] on carnival spirit alone.” 1 A little over a week later, Reuters sought to close the debate with an article by Alissa de Carbonnel, in which she announced, “The carnival is over for Russia’s…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2012
Category
Feminism
Subjects
Protests & Demonstrations, Occupy, Punk
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Ruptures
e-flux Announcement
Posted: August 25, 2012
Subjects
Protests & Demonstrations, Art Activism, Occupy, Arab Spring
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
Occupy Bay Area
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 29, 2012
Subjects
Occupy
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: May 4, 2012
Category
Labor & Work, Museums
Subjects
Protests & Demonstrations, Art Market, Privatization, Occupy
e-flux Criticism
Posted: April 27, 2012
Subjects
Futurism , Censorship, Socially Engaged Art, Occupy, Art Activism, Rituals & Celebrations
Swiss Institute
Three exhibitions
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 9, 2012
Category
Painting, Sculpture, Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Drawing
Subjects
Occupy
Institution
# 33
The Artistic Mode of Revolution: From Gentrification to Occupation
Martha Rosler
A discussion of the struggles, exoduses, and reappropriations of cognitive labor, especially in the field of visual art, and especially when taken as the leading edge of the “creative class,” while critically important, is trumped by the widespread, even worldwide, public demonstrations and occupations of the past year, this year, and maybe the next. I would like to revisit the creative-class thesis I have explored here in a recent series of essays in order to frame my remarks in light of…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2012
Category
Urbanism
Subjects
Occupy, Socially Engaged Art, Protests & Demonstrations, Precarity, Academia, Art Activism, Liberalism
Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
Occupy Nigeria
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 4, 2012
Subjects
Occupy, Art Activism
Institution
Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY)
It’s The Political Economy, Stupid
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 6, 2012
Category
Economy
Subjects
Crisis, Art Activism, Occupy
Institution
# 31
After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social
Gregory Sholette
In the third chapter of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick , the novel’s protagonist, Ishmael, enters the Spouter Inn in search of passage onto a whaling ship. He soon encounters an age-darkened oil painting in the entranceway and becomes perplexed. The canvas is so covered in scratches and smoky residue that it’s all but impossible to make sense of. Throwing open a window to gain more light, Ishmael attempts to describe what he sees:
what most puzzled and confounded you was a long,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2012
Category
Education
Subjects
Occupy, Socially Engaged Art, Abstraction, Protests & Demonstrations
# 31
General Performance
Sven Lütticken
Rather than signaling the end of the labor regime that has marked the past decades, the current crisis is the becoming-explicit of its internal contradictions. As the Constructivist critic Nikolai Tarabukin put it: the future art under communism would be work transformed. 1 From the 1970s on, this goal has increasingly been realized in unexpected ways, as new forms of labor have emerged that redefine work in performative terms. In recasting performance as action, the current activism not…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2012
Category
Performance, Labor & Work, Economy
Subjects
Immaterial Labor, Occupy, Temporality, Protests & Demonstrations
Para Site
Two Thousand Eleven
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 12, 2011
Subjects
Memory, Crisis, Occupy, Arab Spring
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 7, 2011
Category
Feminism, Gender, Drawing, LGBTQ+
Subjects
Identity Politics, Occupy, Reproductive Justice, Libraries & Archives
# 30
Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility
Claire Tancons
While some commentators and journalists have dismissed Occupy Wall Street as carnival, lawmakers and police officers did not miss the point. They reached back to a mid-nineteenth century ban on masking to arrest occupiers wearing as little as a folded bandana on the forehead, leaving little doubt about their fear of Carnival as a potent form of political protest. New York Times journalist Ginia Bellafante initially expressed skepticism about “air[ing] societal grievance as carnival,” but…
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 1, 2011
Category
Capitalism, Race & Ethnicity
Subjects
Occupy, Protests & Demonstrations