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Aesthetics of the Political: Artists Talk

Aesthetics of the Political: Artists Talk looks at the strategies that artists use to transform political and critical ideas into aesthetic form in their work. It is a nuanced and detailed investigation into where the political gesture is embedded in works that take a critical position, or reflect on contemporary and historical contexts where hegemonic power and the systems that produce social, economic, educational and political inequalities lie.

​Artists Talk will engage artists from different parts of the world whose work offers criticality to normative and hegemonic narratives, and is guided by the following queries:

  • Where is the political gesture embedded in artistic work?

  • How do artists, in their own words, describe how they translate political thoughts, ideas and positions into artistic form?

  • What are the aesthetic choices, or the artistic strategies that artists use in their work?

  • How do these strategies function as a form of resistance to systemic violence, hegemony, and inequality?

  • How can we build alternative forms of knowledge to expand our understanding of the political engagement in art, and western-centric frameworks of defining art making?

  • How can an online archive of artistic conversations function as a pedagogical tool?

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