A Politics of Knowledge in Contemporary Art?

Abstract

The picture of contemporary art's teleology amounting to its frictionless circulation as knowledge commodity might prove exaggerated, yet it does provoke the question as to where art's potential role as a critical agent across the networked spaces of knowledge capitalism is to be located. The article aims at charting some of the current predicaments of contemporary art's entanglement with a global knowledge economy and the ensuing politics of knowledge. The issue of contemporary art's organization in institutions of education and knowledge production is being raised and later exemplified in a brief recapitulation of the conceptual framing of artist Fernando García-Dory's ‘para-institutional’ INLAND project.

Notes

1 The article was first given as a talk in January 2016 for the symposium ‘Please Worry! Critical Pedagogies in Graduate Art Education’ at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).