‘Big Oil Out of Culture,’ Paris, December 2015. Credit: Sumugan Sivanesan |
A new article, ‘Institutional Reform: Art as Anti-Statecraft’ for Runway #30, Ecologies is now online.
Institutions that facilitate the coming together of cultural objects, historical narratives, philosophical concepts, the wealthy elite and their political interests can be understood as instruments of statecraft—the skill of governing, effecting and maintaining power. The formulation of counterpower through these same institutions is its antithesis.