Biennial art and its rituals: value, political economy and artfulness

IF 0.4 Q3 CULTURAL STUDIES
Panos Kompatsiaris
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ABSTRACT The visual art of the last decades privileges, explicitly or implicitly, social rather than art historical or aesthetic issues. In sites ranging from university classrooms and journals to museums and biennials, the emphasis is usually put on how effectively art handles the social issues of the day while questions of aesthetic value are often treated as suspicious and ideological. Given this anti-art character in these contexts of mediation, the insistence to perceive the objects as artistic objects constitutes a paradox that has been rarely discussed in sociological terms. This article draws on ethnographic research in order to explore “biennial art” that is to say the art that displayed in contemporary art and international platforms of showcasing. These platforms struggle to maintain a concept of art as social practice while at the same time nurture an exclusive and highbrow environment in which “artfulness” is key. I call this quality artfulness so as to both underline its artificiality as well as the inventiveness and skills required for its production. Artfulness in these sites is enabled through various formal or informal rituals of valorization, including guided tours, curatorial statements, media promoting activities and artist talks. These rituals, positioning certain objects within the sphere of art and producing them as objects meriting aesthetic interpretation, resemble the politics of publicity found in aesthetic capitalism at large.
双年展艺术及其仪式:价值、政治经济和艺术性
近几十年来,视觉艺术或明或暗地强调社会问题,而不是艺术史或美学问题。从大学教室和期刊到博物馆和双年展,重点通常放在艺术如何有效地处理当今的社会问题上,而美学价值的问题往往被视为可疑和意识形态。在这些调解的背景下,考虑到这种反艺术的特征,坚持将物体视为艺术对象构成了一个很少在社会学术语中讨论的悖论。本文利用民族志研究来探讨“双年展艺术”,即在当代艺术和国际展示平台上展出的艺术。这些平台努力保持艺术作为社会实践的概念,同时培育一个独特的高雅环境,其中“艺术性”是关键。我称这种品质为“艺术性”,这样既强调了它的人为性,也强调了它的制作所需的创造性和技巧。这些场所的艺术性通过各种正式或非正式的增值仪式得以实现,包括导览、策展声明、媒体推广活动和艺术家会谈。这些仪式,将某些对象定位在艺术领域内,并将它们作为值得美学解释的对象生产出来,类似于美学资本主义中普遍存在的宣传政治。
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