How political can art be?
01 September 2010
Clémentine Deliss and Juliane Rebentisch discuss the role of art in politics and society. The third Frankfurter Stadtgespräch, a joint event of the Cluster of Excellence and the Frankfurter Kunstverein, will take place on September 16 in Frankfurt.
What influence does art exert on the normative orders of a society, on public space and on processes of globalisation? And how is art influenced in turn by these phenomena? The relation between art and politics has always been a matter of controversy. Underlying it is the very basic question of whether art is intrinsically political or whether it must reject politics for art's sake. But what could constitute the political essence of art?
The next Frankfurter Stadtgespräch will be devoted to these and related questions. Under the heading ‘Politik der Kunst in der globalisierten Welt’, the philosopher Dr. Juliane Rebentisch and the Director of the Museum of World Cultures (Frankfurt), Dr. Clémentine Deliss, will discuss these issues at the invitation of the Cluster of Excellence and the Frankfurter Kunstverein. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Holger Kube Ventura, Director of the Kunstverein.
Juliane Rebentisch teaches philosophy and conducts research at the Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’. Among her primary areas of interest are issues in aesthetics and in political philosophy and ethics. Among her publications in the field of aesthetics is the monograph Ästhetik der Installation, which was published by Suhrkamp.
Clémentine Deliss, who was born in Britain as the daughter of a French mother and an Austrian father, had already made an international name for herself as a curator before she was appointed Director of the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt in early 2010. She holds a doctorate in ethnology and is also the founder of the international art journal Metronome.
The third Frankfurter Stadtgespräch will take place on 16 September, 2010 in the Café of the Frankurter Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Markt 44. The event will begin at 7.30pm. Admission, as always, is free.
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