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Subversive performance in the age of human capital / Pil Kollectiv, Galia Kollectiv.

9783031358159 (electronic bk.)
3031358155 (electronic bk.)
9783031358142
3031358147

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-031-35815-9 doi

N72.P6

701.03

Contemporary art relies on an expansionist, modernist ideal and still progresses through a critique of earlier forms of democratisation. But beneath this democratic drive, lurks a creeping crisis. Under neoliberalism, criticality has become a zone of value production. A self-deprecating irony, exposing and re-enacting this position of impotence, is one of the few gestures left in the arsenal of critical art. Against irony, this book pits overidentification. The term has been taken to mean a kind of parodic mimicry of institutional power. The authors differentiate this from bad faith flirting with taboo aesthetics by focusing on practices grounded in a genuine identification with power that ushers the kind of excess implied by overidentification. Staging forms of critique not so readily absorbed into the structure of the present, these subversive performances herald a future beyond the democratic paradox. Pil and Galia Kollectiv are artists, writers and curators working in collaboration. They lecture in Art at the University of Reading, Royal College of Art and University of the Arts London.

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