[Nettime-nl] Eindhoven: The Autonomy Project Symposium (Oct 7-9, 2011)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

http://theautonomyproject.org/

The Autonomy Project Symposium (Oct 7-9, 2011) addresses the position  
of art in society today. The notion of autonomy, once designed to  
specify art’s place within society, has become a means of occluding  
its public relevance. This has become very clear when recently Dutch  
neoliberals and populists proposed large cuts on culture, arguing that  
art is primarily a private affair and has no real public function. The  
inability of the Dutch art world to mount an effective counter  
campaign has thereby made explicit the fact that the confusion  
concerning the public nature of an autonomous art comes not only from  
without but also from within.
The symposium wishes to address the current situation through the work  
of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière. He has been committed to  
describing the function of art’s autonomy within public life today.  
Through a mixture of lectures and workshops the symposium explores  
Rancière’s valuable contribution both from theoretical and practical  
perspectives.

Click here for more programme information.

Dates: October 7-9, 2011

Location: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

REGISTRATION is essential and can be done via the Van Abbemuseum website


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