Does the Artist Need to Be Present? The “Paradigm of Visibility” and Art Practices in Public Space

• Authors: Łukasz Białkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The thesis of my paper is that art participatory practices in public space have a paradoxical potential to avoid a paradigm of visibility. What I call the paradigm of visibility is a formula of social presence of art which is based on a necessity of occupying a certain physical or symbolical space and an effort to sustain it. This kind of public presence of art is traditionally considered to be a guarantee of its value in terms of both artistic and social legitimisation. A question arises if this formula has an alternative. It seems that participatory art practices in public space – focused on production of objects and searching for social impact and social efficacy – can formulate a different model of presence of art (of its production and distribution) than object-based art.

Keywords

EN

Marina Abramović; visibility; public space; artworld

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Philosophica. Ethica – Aesthetica – Practica
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 30
• Pages: 111-119

Dates

published

2017-12-30

Contributors

author

Łukasz Białkowski

• The Pedagogical University of Krakow, ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0208-6107.30.08