Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics - Couverture souple

Holert, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3943365972 ISBN 13 : 9783943365979

Editeur : Sternberg Press, 2020

Synopsis

What is the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect? Knowledge Beside Itself delves into the peculiar emphasis placed in recent years, curatorially and institutionally, on notions such as "research" and "knowledge production." Considered as a specific, expansive mode of the culture industry, contemporary art is viewed here as a strategic bet on the social distinctions and value extractions made possible by claiming a different, novel access to "knowledge." Contemporary art's various liaisons with the humanities and the social and natural sciences, as well as its practitioners' frequent embeddedness within transdisciplinary research environments and educational settings, have created a sense of epistemo-aesthetic departure, which concurs with the growing relevance of art as conduit or catalyst of knowledge.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Holert is a writer and curator. In 2015 he cofounded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin, a platform for research and production based on and departing from Farocki's example. With Anselm Franke he curated the 2018 exhibition Neolithic Childhood: Art in a False Present, c. 1930, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sternberg Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3943365972
• ISBN 13: 9783943365979
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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