WINTER 2022 - ART AS MODEL OF CONTRADICTORY STRUCTURE OF COLLECTIVITY? - SOLD OUT

‘IN ARTWORKS AND INDIVIDUALS ALIKE..’ - THE ILLUSION OF AUTONOMY OF THE MONAD?

THE CONSTITUTIVELY SOCIAL CHARACTER OF ALL INDIVIDUALITY

AN ‘I’ WITHOUT A ‘WE’? A FOOLS ’PARADISE OF LIBERALISM’ CONTRA HEGEL (‘I THAT IS WE, WE THAT IS I’)?

DISAVOWING THE CONSTITUTIVELY SOCIAL CHARACTER OF ALL INDIVIDUALITY? THE FANTASY OF THE LIBERAL CONCEPT OF FREEDOM (PRESENTED IN ITS PURE FORM IN THE WORK OF ART AS A PREFIGURATION OF A FREE PRAXIS)

ART ARTICULATES THE IMPOSSIBLE ‘WE’ OF MODERNITY? HOW THE ARTWORK SPEAKS WITH A COLLECTIVE VOICE AS THE CARRIER OF THE COLLECTIVE HISTORICAL CONTENTS OF ITS ARTISTIC MATERIALS, THROUGH ITS TECHNOLOGIES, MATERIALITIES AND HISTORY OF ITS FORMS; OR, HOW INDIVIDUAL WORKS OF ART IN THEIR AUTONOMOUS SENSE FUNCTION ARTISTICALLY ONLY VIA THE COLLECTIVE CONTENT OF THEIR TECHNOLOGIES, TECHNIQUES, MATERIALS AND THE HISTORY OF THEIR FORMS

COLLECTIVE CONTENT WRAPPED UP AND PRESENTED AS THE SELF-EXPRESSION OF THE INDIVIDUALITY OF A SINGLE WORK? HOW THE FUNDAMENTAL POLITICAL CONTRADICTION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALITY AND COLLECTIVITY STRUCTURALLY CHARACTERISTIC OF CAPITALIST SOCIETIES IS CONTAINED IN THE WORK OF ART IN ITS MODERN WESTERN INSTITUTIONAL SENSE AND PRESENTED IN A PURE FORM

ART = PURE FORM OF LIBERAL FANTASY + AN ACTUAL COLLECTIVE HISTORICAL VOICE (A VOICING OF THE SOCIAL COLLECTIVITY, CONDENSED INTO ITS OWN ARTISTIC MATERIALS - EXPRESSED THROUGH THE ARTICULATION OF THOSE MATERIALS AS ART - WHICH EXPRESSES AND CONDENSES THE SOCIAL LABOUR THAT GO INTO THE PRODUCTION OF THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT IT USES)?