Politicising Aesthetics, Resisting Politics

Abstract

The panel explores the complex relation between politics, aesthetics and the human body. It asks what the consequences of and problems in politicizing aesthetics are and how politics can be resisted or interrupted through art and artistic practices. Can, and if so in what way, we talk about everyday aesthetics as resistance? Contributions to the panel can address a variety of topics. The panel hopes to receive submissions, which ponder upon or problematize the relation between politics and aesthetics, possibly by presenting a concrete case of either an ‘established’ form of art or aesthetics understood as a performative practice that anyone can enact in their daily life. We are particularly interested in papers that discuss the multiple disciplinary practices that categorize and rank human bodies into patterns that are experienced as ‘intolerable’. And yet, according to Michel Foucault, from ‘intolerable’ practices multiple points of resistance can emerge and perhaps resist politics through a corporeal aesthetics of the everyday that creates one’s life as a form of art – an aesthetics of the self. Or, alternatively, contributions to this panel can address the spatial aesthetics, in which art(ists) relate(s) to space, politics and engage others locally and globally. This type of aesthetics can have an impact on democratizing political structures or it can function as an intervention into public life and political developments.

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