Going Public [electronic resource].

Sternberg Press e-flux 2010

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If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.
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Technology and the arts
Communism
Philosophy
Sociology

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Boris Groys
Julieta Aranda
Brian Kuan Wood
Anton Vidokle
Daria Irincheeva
Mariana Silva
Jeff Ramsey
Steven Lindberg
Matthew Partridge
Rachel Ichniowski
Orit Gat
Phillip Stephen Twilley
Leah Whitman-Salkin