Infrastructures of critique – Foreigners Everywhere – Looting
Selected bits and pieces below. To be continued.
‘intending to bring together militant theoretical currents and lessons learned from social movements in and against the art sector’
‘the relationship between forms of critique and forms of struggle undertaken by collective social practices’
‘the role of the institution in wider infrastructures of incarceration and the Capitolocene’
‘how the supposed autonomy of art as a precept for radical action rather than an excuse for surrender’
‘it has not been uncommon to encounter a (leftist) position that self-identifies as antiracist and claims to “support the movement” but for whom looting is a step too far’
‘This use of the word “looting” demonstrates how the term can be employed to nominatively enforce the boundaries of private property’
‘a call for the abandonment of the illusion of art’s autonomy’
‘something that changes our way of seeing the streets is more important than something that changes our way of seeing paintings’
‘the connections between corporations and art institutions … more about moving real estate’
‘the mother is the praxis incarnated’
‘the idea of communism is no longer that of appropriating the means of producyion, because the means of production, along with what is being produced, are themselves destroying the planet’
‘it is in the interest of white supremacy to claim that rioting and looting are not communicative acts, that they are rather pure “criminality” ‘
‘ looting is direct action par excellence … but it is also a nearly irrecuperable aesthetic gesture against the police, whiteness, and the regime of property that gives those forces power and purpose … demonstrating that all sttands between us and plenty is a thin sheet of glass’
‘rioting is an articulation of our position outside the order… we are the governed, we are not the citizens’
‘looting is part of the revolutionary process’
‘the only way this left can make sense of it is to spectacularize it while also denying it as any form of political speech’
‘the museum is a monument to good looting’
‘how can these people purport to be the arbiters of care when that supposed care both continues and is premised on violence?’
The format and content of this book got me thinking, couldn’t we at some point publish texts/books/conversations.
https://www.artforum.com/features/claire-fontaine-216239
Yes I like Claire Fontaine. I suggest you do your own research on their work, I got to know it better through their contributions to this book. I became a fan ;).
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