Jan Vorisek’s Devotion Strategy
Under these conditions, in which strategy is constantly privileged over passionate feelings and deeply felt principles are constantly misread as strategy, emotional divestment from public life becomes not just tempting but unavoidable.
Heather Havrilesky • The Rise of Emotional Divestment
Alex Dobrenko added
For some critics, including Tate Modern curator Jessica Morgan and critic Claire Bishop, Bourriaud’s approach and his claims risk, themselves, being utopian, naïve and unrealistic.
Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
a term coined and an idea practiced by an industrial designer and artist at MIT named Krzysztof Wodiczko who later became my mentor. Interrogative design—making things not only for solving problems, but to ask questions.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Art named a category divorced from overtly political or religious agents, one that could be approached disinterestedly, apart from the agendas and desires of the beholder.
Natalie Carnes • Image and Presence: A Christological Reflection on Iconoclasm and Iconophilia (Encountering Traditions)
In a completely ultra-poptimist world, there would be no available incentives to create novel, complex, or ambiguous works of art. We would have to rely on artist altruism or insanity.
Culture: An Owner's Manual • Culture Is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism
Andrew McCluskey added
Shocker huh!
Here we see the shift from cruel optimism to stupid pessimism, or call it fashionable pessimism, or simply cynicism. It’s very easy to object to the utopian turn by invoking some poorly-defined but seemingly omnipresent reality principle. Well-off people do this all the time.
Kim Stanley Robinson • Dystopias Now | Commune
Keely Adler added
By encouraging contemporary art museums to experiment with similar value flow curation, we hope to initiate a friendly, positive-sum competition among cultural institutions to connect in deeper ways with the material conditions of art workers and audiences.
Toby Shorin • Curating Value Exchange: Presentation + Q&A with Hito Steyerl
Jedric Viera added
It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought. THEODORE ROSZAK, “IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS”