Abstract
The paper reflects on issues regarding the ethico-political and aesthetic modalities of artistic knowledges, further questioning what institutional critique and critique of institutions challenge for institutions of knowledge and community art. I approach specific practices that refer to and draw from post-studio art practice, community art, new genre public art and educational turn in art, through questions regarding embodied knowledges, critical engagement and issues of authorship/authority. In this direction, feminist/queer conceptualizations of the performativity of knowledge reinforce thinking about how knowledges are produced, diffused and multiplied as they intersect through the art, pedagogical, economic institutions that constitute the frame of reference for performativity. I further explore the challenges that arise regarding intersectional (e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, class) claims for transformative (artistic) knowledges demanding for more democratic ways of community making through collaborative and participatory methodologies so that knowledge institutions can be inhabited anew with others. Elaborating on the terms that such bodies of theory and practice take charge of the responsibility to the other to challenge hospitality, I critically engage with what is rendered im-possible for knowledge as openness to indiscriminate otherness. Beyond the antinomies of hospitality∙ the unconditional reception of the other and the conditional laws imposed for the (unconditional) hospitality, I propose that the undecidability of knowledge brings forth other ways of aesthetic/political aporias for the community (art)-yet-to-come, so that artistic knowledges are (re)instituted as traces of the unfinished work of knowing or what we would otherwise name as spectral knowing.
Presenters
Valia PapastamouStudent, Phd Candidate, University of Thessaly, Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology, Greece
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
COMMUNITY ART, SPECTRALITY, TRANSFORMATIVE KNOWLEDGES, COLLABORATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGIES
