Alain Badiou: 15 thèses sur l’art contemporain
Mercredi 11 juin 2008Below are the 15 points Alain badiou discussed at the drawing center in New York. December 4, 2003
The question: how can contemporary art avoid being formalist romantic?
This was the question he started his talk with. The following points were addressing this question. By form he possibly means organization, anything you need to make art with, in the general sense of the word. It is not form as opposed to content. By romantic he means for example when one considers our reality to be bad, when one strives a better reality, when nihilism is the dominant mode of thinking. (romanticism-nihilism)
15 thèses sur l’art contemporain ( from: Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art)
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1. L’art n’est pas la descente sublime de l’infini dans l’abjection finie du corps et du sexe. Il est au contraire la production, par le moyen fini d’une soustraction matérielle, d’une série subjective infinie. Lire la suite de cet article »