Don’t fight it: the embodiment of critique.

2007

Published by:
Intellect, Taylor and Francis

ISBN: ISSN 1470-2029 (Print); ISSN 1758-9185 (Online)

 

Chris Smith (Editor)

This essay for the Journal of Visual Arts Practice. Vol 6, number 1 2007, examines the ethic of ‘institutional critique’ as a problem for arts ‘work’ vis-àvis the political by making links between institutional critique and a Hegelian inspired subjectivity. How are we  to understand the work of knowledge (critique) when recognizing either the possibility or the impossibility of absolute knowledge is not a required precursor for agency, but instead we are faced with knowledge without these grounds, as techne. This was also presented as a paper at the AAH conference Contents. Discontents. Malcontents: panel Institutional Critique as Institution, 2006, Leeds University,

Talk Context

  • Contents. Discontents. Malcontents
  • AAH Conference
  • Leeds UK
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