Curation of Autonomy [electronic resource].

OnCurating.org 2022

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This publication provides a dialectical conception of Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud, 2002), by focusing on the ‘value form of participation’ and the ways in which this gets subsumed into capitalist circuits to fit its purpose within culture. One of the original contributions of this research project within the field of political art, or art that aims to be political, is its in-depth critique of relational art’s political economy from the perspective of an engaged practice. The publication also provides insights into the role of the curator as the interlocutor of this exchange. By combining Marxist and Lacanian perspectives, Kontopoulou conceptualises the artist-student as the subject or social embodiment of surplus value and surplus jouissance. Her research interest is guided by her own position as a ‘transversal’ practitioner and by her desire to ‘curate’ a relative kind of autonomy that manages to de-link the symbolic from value and redistribute the surplus of participation back to social movements and the communities that support them.
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Art criticism
Art--Study and teaching
Museums--Curatorship
Art museum curators
Historical Materialism
Performance Art
Political art

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Anna Alkistis Kontopoulou
Sarah-Louise Spies
Biotop 3000