Theodor W. Adorno described artworks as windowless monads, for it is through their double character as both autonomous and "fait social" that unsolved antagonisms of reality return in them as immanent problems of form. Socially committed contemporary artists, however, experiment with other spheres of reference. They involve human beings as actors in communicative processes of reality construction, thus creating new spaces of possibility. The "New Relations in Art and Society" conference hosted by the Campus Museum of the Art Collections of the Ruhr-University of Bochum (RUB) considered this challenge.
Taking the exhibition "Mischa Kuball: NEW POTT" and the conference as their starting point, various authors reflected on positions of participation in socially engaged art, discussing theoretical frameworks, artistic projects, and institutional challenges.
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German
2011
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New Relations in Art and Society
- Friederike WAPPLER
Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity
- Claire BISHOP
New Communities
- Nina MONTMANN
Mapping the Region: NEW POTT (Map)
- Mischa KUBALL
NEW POTT. On a Polyphonic Portrait of a Region
- Sandra HOPTNER
Figures of Participation in Mischa Kuball's NEW POTT
- Beate SONTGEN
On the Non-Simultaneity and Impossibility of the >Pott<
- Harald WELZER
... The idea that an action should be part of the work has been germinating within me since 1956...
- Franz Erhard WALTHER
WHAT IF
- Lawrence WEINER
With >Presence< and >Production< creating Moments of Public
- Thomas HIRSCHHORN
Presupposition of the Equality of Intelligences and Love of the Infinitude of Thought
- Thomas HIRSCHHORN
In the Black Box: Stephen Willats
- Astrid WEGE
>Kitchen Stories< - Construction and Contemplation of Social Spaces in the Works of Rirkrit Tiravanija and Liam Gillick
- Gerald SCHRODER
>The dying will show us how he dies.< Aesthetics as a Participatory Concept in Gregor Schneider's Toter Raum
- Kristin MAREK
Shapes in Motion: Artistic Models of Participation
- Eva SCHMIDT
You are most welcome to participate
- Apolonija SUSTERSICThe Tiger's Mind - Beatrice GIBSON
New Relations in Art and Society
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