Art and Politics
“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-structuralist 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 […] An international panel of artists and art professionals will compare and contrast European experiences based upon the themes above.” -The Embassy of Slovenia Dublin
Conference papers from the 2004 “Art and Politics: The Imagination of Opposition in Europe” panel, organized by the University College Dublin’s European Institute and the Embassy of Slovenia Dublin. -Printed Matter
Foreward by Helena Drnovšek Zorko. Essays by Mike Fitzpatrick, Paula Murphy, Stefan Auer, Constance Short, Brenda Moore-McCann, Colin Darke, Bojana Kunst, Marina Gržinić, Miško Šuvaković, and Alexei Monroe.