Greece: Re-imagining democracy through art Thursday, July 05 @ 11:49:23 MDT by balkans (254 reads)
No Mediation:
Re-imagining democracy through art Application deadline:
July 20, 2007
Online journal Re-public
www.re-public.gr/en invites contributions for its upcoming special issue
entitled ‘NO MEDIATION: Re-imagining democracy through art’. While the political
institutions of contemporary Western democracies are currently facing a crisis
of representation, art is increasingly associated with the explosion of novel
democratic mediums, forms and processes. From YouTube to Flickr, from graffiti
to street art, new media are opening up the field of art to processes of
democratization of the means of creative expression allowing more and more
people indeed, potentially everyone- to become an artist. The exhaustively
discussed relationship between art and power seems to have finally missed the
conjunction ‘and’: art is in itself becoming a space of democratic
experimentation in multiple ways. Art works are focusing on new micropolitical
and biopolitical themes, they are! inventing new forms of creativity, and are
constructing new social networks. The special issue aims to address this
potentially new relationship between art and democracy.
