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Curation of Autonomy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kontopoulou, Anna Alkistis, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art criticism.
- Art museum curators.
- Arts--Study and teaching.
- Historical materialism.
- Museums--Curatorship.
- Performance art.
- Political art.
- Art Pedagogy.
- Curatorship.
- Curators.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Critical Writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], OnCurating.org, 2022.
- Summary:
- "This publication provides a dialectical conception of Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud, 2002), by focusing on the 'value form of participation' and the ways in which this gets subsumed into capitalist circuits to fit its purpose within culture. One of the original contributions of this research project within the field of political art, or art that aims to be political, is its in-depth critique of relational art's political economy from the perspective of an engaged practice. The publication also provides insights into the role of the curator as the interlocutor of this exchange. By combining Marxist and Lacanian perspectives, Kontopoulou conceptualises the artist-student as the subject or social embodiment of surplus value and surplus jouissance. Her research interest is guided by her own position as a 'transversal' practitioner and by her desire to 'curate' a relative kind of autonomy that manages to de-link the symbolic from value and redistribute the surplus of participation back to social movements and the communities that support them."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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