Summary of lecture by Oliver Marchart at Goldsmiths University
Biennials tapping into politics
Local politics – local, national and continental identity
World exhibitions
Cannon shifts
The danger that politics/political art is turned into a style/genre
Break in the art field a cannon shift
Art 7 theory
Scientific production of knowledge
Diagnostic instruments
Strategy of transformism
Biennial Politics – Post Marxist
Engaging art from else where, using different vocabularies
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Starting point for an exhibition in Europe
Political analysis of the art field
What does the art field contribute to Politics at large?
Hegemony
Transnational encounters
Unstable forces claiming hegemony. No one posses hegemony i is something that is to be contested and fought for.
Documenta 12 – Aesthetic education
Pedagogy as the key form/technology of dominating culture
And what is allowed to be said and heard
The impossibility to have a revolution in the form of the French revolution – hence Schillers adoption of Beldung and the Aesthetic Revolution.
The impossibility of politics and a revolution
How do we gauge the field of art?
What are the parameters of the art world?
Undoing positions/singularisation
Opening up oneself to other positions and possibilities
Power is not bad in itself but how you use it!
Documenta 12 deconstructed Documenta
Working on our common sense, a census, the opinion that we automatically fall back on agreed hegemonic thinking
The emancipator potential for art and thinking
