This monograph takes a look at how the increasing multipolarity of our world affects art. It is a diagnosis of the socio-political contexts that surround art and questions what the upheavals in geopolitics, economic and social policy mean for the field of art today. The text is divided into four sections. First, the phenomenon is conceptualized and theorized. This is followed by an in-depth examination of the interrelationships using documenta fifteen as a case study, an exhibition that can be seen as a crystallization point for current political shifts. This is followed by an in-depth reading of Chinese art policy, which oscillates between particularist and universalist claims, in order to arrive at the concluding section, which opens up a horizon of thought and experimentation that helps us to come to terms with the era of multipolarity.
Beschreibung / Abstract
This monograph takes a look at how the increasing multipolarity of our world affects art. It is a diagnosis of the socio-political contexts that surround art and questions what the upheavals in geopolitics, economic and social policy mean for the field of art today. The text is divided into four sections. First, the phenomenon is conceptualized and theorized. This is followed by an in-depth examination of the interrelationships using documenta fifteen as a case study, an exhibition that can be seen as a crystallization point for current political shifts. This is followed by an in-depth reading of Chinese art policy, which oscillates between particularist and universalist claims, in order to arrive at the concluding section, which opens up a horizon of thought and experimentation that helps us to come to terms with the era of multipolarity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Cover
Halftitle
Titlepage
Preface
Chapter 1 Problem Analysis for the Artworld
Chapter 2 The Case of documenta
2.1 What Politics? What Aesthetics?
2.2 What Community?
2.3 Postscript to documenta 15 and Prelude to documenta 16
Chapter 3 China in Between Universalism and Particularism
3.1 Silk Road: China’s Geographical Imagination
3.2 Tech and Ideologies: Chinese Tech Legacy in Art Production
Chapter 4 Experiments
4.1 Tech Pragmatics in Artistic Experiments
4.2 Designing Institutions: Art After a Multipolar World
