New York Aesthetics Lunch Workshop—Spring 2025
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 (Room 4419)
January 29, 11.45 – 1.15
Francesco Campana (University of Padua & The New School)
On Representation: Artistic Space as Political Space
Abstract
The demand for perspectives other than the dominant ones in the history of the arts—male, white, heteronormative, Western, bourgeois, etc.—has emerged forcefully in recent decades. This demand calls for the artistic representation of diverse viewpoints, challenges the privileges that have shaped the dominant narratives, and questions traditional canons and claims of universality. The need to artistically represent plural views, in terms of ethnicity, gender, social class, religion, geographic origin, and more, has, to some extent, become intertwined with the need for political representation. In this talk, I will focus on the concept of ‘representation,’ exploring the boundaries, interrelationships, similarities, and differences between artistic and political representation. I will also examine to what extent artistic representation can take on the characteristics of political representation, and how the intersection of these two concepts might contribute to a broader reconsideration of the relationship between art and politics.
Organization: Prof. Elisa Caldarola, within the MSC Project IEIA (grant agreement 101068795).
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