Post-politics and contemporary art in the era of global capitalist crisis
Post-politics and contemporary art in the era of global capitalist crisis

Summary/Abstract: We live in times of interregnum (Zygmunt Bauman), times when power is being renegotiated, and even though it seems as the only effective form of exercising power in our actual state of emergency – a state of siege, in which biopolitics are replaced by necropolitics (Marina Gržinić), our current crisis is determined by the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born (Antonio Gramsci). Given the economic globalization and the liberalization of the capital market, the networks of capitalist power evolved globally, while political thinking remained local and ineffective. However, it is precisely this global turn that generated a coagulation of critical reactions in the art field – which associate neoliberal thinking with a global orientation (Simon Sheikh). Between global power and local politics, a fundamental contradiction arises. This is why the art world needs to establish a model of resistance against the globalization symptoms of contemporary art, as the biennalization and the neoliberalization of curatorial thinking, and start planning for an aesthetic revolution using artistic practices as manners of active involvement in the constitution of the creative metapolitical project of a sensory community that holds the promise of a better world for both, art and life (Jacques Rancière).

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