Monday, October 11, 2010
Whilst reading Niko Papastergiadis' article on Art versus politics, it was difficult for me to look beyond the point Okwui Enwezor makes relating to the 'blurring of the function of an image as a signifer of an event'. The image in contemporary society plays a powerful role, and in particular the images of 9/11 continue to play a powerful role but the way an image is interplayed can determine how it is portrayed. The point brought up concerning the grey area between the artist and the warrior made me slightly worried as to what the future for artist's toying with these ideas and actions might hold. The blurring of the boundary between artistic representation and political intervention is totally necessary as this interplay allows each machine to flourish. Ranciere sums up the relationship between both the politics machine and the art machine by addressing that both modes are formed within their 'independent regimes of identification' but are both seperate entities simutaneously.
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