EAN: 9783035803457

AESTHETICS OF THE COMMONS KARTONIERT (TB)

What do a feminist server  an art space located in a public park in North London  a 'pirate'
library of high cultural value yet dubious legal status  and an art school that emphasizes
collectivity have in common? They all demonstrate that art can play an important role in
imagining and producing a real quite different from what is currently hegemonic  that art has
the possibility to not only envision or proclaim ideas in theory  but also to realize them
materially. Aesthetics of the Commons examines a series of artistic and cultural projects-drawn
from what can loosely be called the (post)digital-that take up this challenge in different
ways. What unites them  however  is that they all have a 'double character.' They are art in
the sense that they place themselves in relation to (Western) cultural and art systems 
developing discursive and aesthetic positions  but  at the same time  they are 'operational' in
that they create recursive environments and freely available resources whose uses exceed these
systems. The first aspect raises questions about the kind of aesthetics that are being embodied
the second creates a relation to the larger concept of the 'commons.' In Aesthetics of the
Commons  the commons are understood not as a fixed set of principles that need to be adhered to
in order to fit a definition  but instead as a 'thinking tool'-in other words  the book's
interest lies in what can be made visible by applying the framework of the commons as a
heuristic device.

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