Slought Foundation is pleased to announce "Rethinking the politics of art," a discussion with the Machete Group on Saturday, March 19th from 8-10:00pm at Slought Foundation.
Saturday 19 March, 8-10pm
Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free at Door (Reservation not required)
In an era in which many have declared the failure of the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde attempts to link art and politics, the Machete Group proposes to revisit this general problematic by emphasizing the need to reconfigure the conceptual matrix used to think the politics of art. Through an exploration of contemporary artistic strategies, the institutional framework of the arts, and the central role of systems of production, distribution and reception, we examine–from motley perspectives–a crucial question for contemporary aesthetic practice: “In order to rethink the relationship between art and politics in the current conjuncture, is it necessary to break with the essentialist assumption that ‘art’ and ‘politics’ are separate entities in need of a privileged point of connection?”
