Aesthetics of the Political: Institutional Critique
Aesthetics of the Political: Institutional Critique hosted by KANAL Centre Pompidou Brussels January 2021
“Aesthetics of the Political” is an on-going project by Samah Hijawi that reflects on the strategies that artists use to transform political and critical ideas into aesthetic form in their work. Realised in different forms of encounter, the project focuses on creating intimate settings for in-depth conversations about where the political gesture and criticality are embedded in artistic practices that reflect on hegemonic power structures in our lives today.
In this chapter subtitled Institutional Critique, commissioned by KANAL Centre-Pompidou Brussels, Samah Hijawi speaks with Banu Cennetoğlu (Turkey), Katleen Vermer and Ronny Heiremans (Belgium), and Yazan Al Khalili (Palestine/Netherlands), and Gosie Vervlossem (Belgium) artists whose work offer different ways of probing the role of cultural institutions in their social and artistic contexts.
“Aesthetics of the Political” is an on-going project by Samah Hijawi that reflects on the strategies that artists use to transform political and critical ideas into aesthetic form in their work. Realised in different forms of encounter, the project focuses on creating intimate settings for in-depth conversations about where the political gesture and criticality are embedded in artistic practices that reflect on hegemonic power structures in our lives today.
In this chapter subtitled Institutional Critique, commissioned by KANAL Centre-Pompidou Brussels, Samah Hijawi speaks with Banu Cennetoğlu (Turkey), Katleen Vermer and Ronny Heiremans (Belgium), and Yazan Al Khalili (Palestine/Netherlands), and Gosie Vervlossem (Belgium) artists whose work offer different ways of probing the role of cultural institutions in their social and artistic contexts.