Discourse
03 n.b.k. Discourse
Solvej Helweg Ovesen.
Die Welt als Bühne.
Published by Marius Babias
126 pages, color illustrations, soft cover, 19.80 EUR/15.00 EUR (members)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2010
ISBN 978-3-86560-645-7
This essay explores the relationship between performance art and the performativtiy of every day life, the daily compulsion to act. Starting with contemporary artists like Tamy Ben-Tor, Carey Young. Jan Mančuška, Jan Northoff, and Claus Carstensen/Peter Bonde, performative schisms between artistic performance and everyday performance in relationships, art work, on the street, and in virtual everyday life are explored. How inspiring is performance art for everyday performance?
02 n.b.k. Discourse
Oliver Marchart
Hegemonie im Kunstfeld
Die documenta-Ausstellungen dX, D11, d12 und die Politik der Biennalisierung
104 pages, color illustrations, soft cover, 19.80 EUR/15.00 EUR (members)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2008
ISBN 978-3-86560-437-8
01 n.b.k. Discourse
Marius Babias
Kunst in der Arena der Politik
Subjektproduktion, Kunstpraxis, Transkulturalität
144 pages, color illustrations, soft cover, 19.80 EUR/15.00 EUR (members)
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2008
ISBN 978-3-86560-439-2
The current relation between art and society is characterized by a basic contradiction: capitalist society, becoming ever more brutal in the course of globalization, adorns itself with critical works of art and appropriates artistic creativity as a continuous engine of capitalist development. Using selected counterexamples of art and cultural politics, Marius Babias explores how far art, through the mobilization of critical content, can contribute to strengthening the notion of publicity as a forum for negotiating social conflicts and political participation.