Reworking Effectiveness: Art as a Politic of Redistribution – Some Remarks from a Polish Perspective
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Tomasz Załuski
Abstract
This article critically reworks the issue of the social impact of art in terms of its ‘effectiveness’. The study shows art’s general economy by taking into account a number of ambivalences, difficulties, and deficiencies related to art activities that turn towards the social, political, economic, and cultural exterior of the field of artistic production. Finally, it tries to mount a careful, complex, and balanced defense of their potentials. Reframing and grounding the discussion on artistic activism in selected concepts from political theory, the author argues that if artistic practices are to be socially effective, art needs to be understood and practiced as a politic of redistribution. A way of practicing such a politic is to be sought in understanding and performing action as susceptible to interception. This entails responsibility for the usage of an action, for co-actions that accompany it, and for potential alliances with intercepting subjects.
© 2018 Tomasz Załuski, published by De Gruyter
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Debatte: The Summer of Art 2017 (continuation)
- Courbet at documenta 14 – Charity and Other Alternative Economies
- Aufsätze
- “A very civil idea …” Art History, Transculturation, and World-Making – With and Beyond the Nation
- Themenschwerpunkt: Ökonomien Des Sozialen
- Einleitung: Der Marktwert der Kapitalismuskritik Ein Dilemma der Gegenwartskunst
- Wirksame Kunst. Spektakel als kritische Form und soziale Praxis
- Feeling and Form in Mark Bradford’s American Pavilion
- Für eine meta-ethische Wende. Anmerkungen zur neueren Verantwortungsästhetik
- Reworking Effectiveness: Art as a Politic of Redistribution – Some Remarks from a Polish Perspective
- Ökonomien der sozialen Medien – Bildpolitik und Gemeinschaftsbildung in den digitalen Netzwerken der Gegenwartskunst
- Anomaly and Autonomy: On the Currency of the Exception in the Value Relations of Contemporary Art
- Buchbesprechungen
- Skulptur um 1300 zwischen Köln und Paris
- Die Memoria der Herren von Lichtenberg in Neuweiler (Elsass). Adelphus-Teppiche, Hochgrab Ludwigs V. († 1471), Heiliges Grab (1478), Glasmalereien (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, Bd. 11)
- Pneumatology. An Inquiry into the Representation of Wind, Air and Breath
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Debatte: The Summer of Art 2017 (continuation)
- Courbet at documenta 14 – Charity and Other Alternative Economies
- Aufsätze
- “A very civil idea …” Art History, Transculturation, and World-Making – With and Beyond the Nation
- Themenschwerpunkt: Ökonomien Des Sozialen
- Einleitung: Der Marktwert der Kapitalismuskritik Ein Dilemma der Gegenwartskunst
- Wirksame Kunst. Spektakel als kritische Form und soziale Praxis
- Feeling and Form in Mark Bradford’s American Pavilion
- Für eine meta-ethische Wende. Anmerkungen zur neueren Verantwortungsästhetik
- Reworking Effectiveness: Art as a Politic of Redistribution – Some Remarks from a Polish Perspective
- Ökonomien der sozialen Medien – Bildpolitik und Gemeinschaftsbildung in den digitalen Netzwerken der Gegenwartskunst
- Anomaly and Autonomy: On the Currency of the Exception in the Value Relations of Contemporary Art
- Buchbesprechungen
- Skulptur um 1300 zwischen Köln und Paris
- Die Memoria der Herren von Lichtenberg in Neuweiler (Elsass). Adelphus-Teppiche, Hochgrab Ludwigs V. († 1471), Heiliges Grab (1478), Glasmalereien (Neue Forschungen zur Deutschen Kunst, Bd. 11)
- Pneumatology. An Inquiry into the Representation of Wind, Air and Breath
