redefining autonomy in contemporary art
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Summary - 17.05.2010
On May 17th the autonomy project meeting in Hildesheim continued the discussion about art's autonomy with an analysis of the text “Theatralität und die Autonomie der Kunst (Michael Fried)”, an…Continue
Started by Nele Katharina Lenz May 30, 2010.
Diving in – working method for the Summer School
Following up on the discussion on May 3rd we have taken a next step in developing a formula on how to prepare for the Summer School. During our discussions it is clear that art’s autonomy can be…Continue
Started by Steven ten Thije May 13, 2010.
Discussion on May 3th part 2 ... what is autonomy?
In the seminar on May 3th, many different discussions got started about what is autonomy and many questions were raised. We tried to consolidate our thoughts on the notion by drawing a mindmap with…Continue
Started by Sophia Trollmann May 10, 2010.
finding a way in....discussions on May 3th. 1 Reply
After a month of discussing autonomy it feels like a good moment to try and organise some thoughts and line out some possible future directions on where to go. Talking about autonomy proves to be a…Continue
Tags: definition, Menzel, Kant, modernism, emancipation
Started by Steven ten Thije. Last reply by Klaus May 3, 2010.
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Comment by Steven ten Thije on May 31, 2010 at 17:08 -
Autonomy: Aesthetic autonomy is the notion that culture is a sphere apart, with each art distinct, and it is a bad word for most of us raised on postmodernist inter-disciplinarity. We tend to forget that autonomy is always provisional, always defined diacritically and situated politically, always semi. Enlightenment thinkers advocated political autonomy in order to challenge the vested interests of the ancien regime, while modernist artists advocated aesthetic autonomy in order to resist illustrational meanings and commercial forces. Like "essentialism," then, "autonomy" is a bad word, but it may not always be a bad strategy, especially at a moment when postmodernist interdisciplinarity has become routine: call it "strategic autonomy."
Hal Foster, 'The ABCs of Contemporary Design'in October, Vol. 100, Obsolescence (Spring, 2002), pp. 191-199
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Comment by Steven ten Thije on May 3, 2010 at 19:07
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First of May in Berlin - participating in the mass peformance of public movement. Walking through the (to be) riot, listening to life-sociology on the radio....
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Comment by Steven ten Thije on April 26, 2010 at 18:48
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'the fullnes of emptiness' - good or bad?
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Comment by Steven ten Thije on April 19, 2010 at 22:55
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