Relational Aesthetics

Common Authorship: Towards an Authority of Art

The tension between politics and aesthetics can be ascribed to the relation between authority and authorship. What is the political role of art? Could a particular theory of authorship in art present and demonstrate an alternative notion of political authority? New technological possibilities and a fresh political sensibility points towards a nascent theory of authorship …

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A Living Archive: The Performance Territory as Social Interstice

Together with his choreographer wife Grace Ellen Barkey, visual artist and theater maker Jan Lauwers formed the Flemish theater collective Needcompany in 1986. The aesthetic richness of their multilingual and multimedia performances is the product of a collective elaboration on their meanings, effects and outcomes, while embracing the potential for individual manoeuvrability within a sphere …

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Participation and Affect

The twentieth century was bracketed by Modernism, which tried to create cultural forms to make transcendental order from chaotic modern life, and Postmodernism, which seemed to simply give in…