Saturday, June 19, 2010

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"Modify a local state of affairs"
means, in my book, simply producing an operation that aspires to directly reconfigure a space or a related institution or a group of people, things order to promote partnerships that be possible without its existence (as in the Venus Project), generating a quasi-institution that exists at the time, relatively independent of their initial advent context (the community), to facilitate the collection of information about possible forms of protest (the stories in open source). I might have said more easily be "useful." And be "useful" in an immediate, palpable, in relation to a community limited in time and space, and a purpose that is different from making some kind of object with aesthetic properties. The deployment of useful work is at the same time, exposed and set objects with aesthetic properties.
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Some of the projects on which work in the book are explicitly defined as critical of the political, economic, cultural, etc., and not others. I think that here I have a few things to say about my argument.
What I try to define in my book is a kind of arrangement or composition of objects and subjects, places and times around the production of stories and images intended to move in groups, different arrangement that was more common in the context of the modern culture of the arts. artists who are dedicated, in recent years to the invention of this format (I take the words of Pierre Huyghe) are inspired in some ways, in the tradition of avant-garde, but in other ways away from it, in a way that would be too complex to explain here (and I try to explain in the book.) The form in question can be mobilized in a project called into question, for example, social or economic forms dominant in the present, or not. So I tried to make a description of its features that dispense with the political agenda in relation to what would be mobilized.

A brief remark concerning the political assessment of the art forms of today. If I'm not mistaken, someone who today is interested in the possibilities of progressive politics has to do a particularly important issue is the forms of organization: how communities create and articulate when modern forms of solidarity (solidarity of class, or neighborhood, or even age class) weaken? other words, when the shapes of the party, movement, the union, everything that we had understood, it becomes problematic. must be said that the difficulty of organizing highly heterogeneous populations unified political action is what explains the difficulty has been to consolidate and progress in recent years, used to be called the "anti-global movement." The kind of laboratory space on the indeterminacy that offers the space (unlimited in its borders) allows an exploration of art. I think a political assessment of the projects of the kind I discuss in the book should serve primarily to this dimension, which in many cases unrelated to deploy an explicit stance regarding the structures of domination, exploitation or exclusion present.

Reinaldo Laddaga

interviewed by Santiago García Navarro http://www.latinart.com/spanish/aiview.cfm?id=377

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