Book: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe

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The Art Projects Network 8 Nov 2004

Arts & Politics: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe


Conference Papers
Authors: Michael Fitzpatrick, Paula Murphy, Stefan Auer, Brenda Moore-
McCann, Constance Short, Colin Darke, Bojana Kunst, Marina Grzinic, Misko
Suvakovic, Alexei Monroe
With a foreword by H.E. Helena Drnovsek-Zorko
Edited by Noel Kelly - The Art Projects Network

Cover Design: New Collectivism
Produced by The Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Published by R4 Publishing

ISBN 0-9543079-1-7 (R4)
First Edition

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How does "art" intersect "politics" either when all art is politics or when politics forcibly subsumes art to its will? In the modernist tradition, art and politics are autonomous fields. In totalitarian societies, everything is politics, with all differentiation disappearing along with the limits between public and private spheres.

In post-imperial societies it is seen as evident that art was rarely independent, playing as it did its own part in the imperialist politics of cultural hegemony and giving rise to various kinds of post-imperial cultural headaches. In post-socialist societies, it becomes clear that, with everything being political, art can produce a politics of its own, making the invisible aesthetic process that makes the cultural hegemony of
the socialist regime visible.

In Slovenia, NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), as a collective project starting from 1980 on, is the most outstanding case of the art of the Eighties. It is an important starting point for analyses of how art and artists react and interact with different political hegemonies - underlying shared and differentiated experiences in both contemporary and historical Europe. An international panel of artists, art historians, critics, academics, and arts professionals gathered in Dublin in April 2004 to compare and contrast European experiences based upon the themes above.

Papers include: The flyover at the crossroads - Art and Politics in the
local-global context (Michael Fitzpatrick); Monuments at Risk (Paula Murphy); Art, Politics and the Power of the Powerless (Stefan Auer); Most of all it doesn't come free (Constance Short); The Politics of Identity, Place, and Memory in Contemporary Irish Art (Brenda Moore-McCann); Working- Class Culture and Artistic Autonomy (Colin Darke); Discontents of Resistance: Art and Politics in the Time of Independence (Bojana Kunst); NSK:It's perpetual mobile (Marina Grzinic); NSK Symptom (Misko Suvakovic); How the West Was Won - NSK and The Conquest of Cultural Space (Alexei Monroe).

Proceeds from the sale of this book will be dedicated to the formation of a
fund for Slovene artists taking part in Artist Residency programmes in
Ireland.

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