The liberal capitalist world order that prevailed after 1989 is today in a stage of advanced
disintegration. The collapse of this order exposes the illiberal core of its freedoms and forms
of ownership shaped by the market: the violent unfreedoms of the dispossessed as well as the
willingness of the propertied to use violence. Art too reveals itself as the venue of these
forces and their exclusions: Through the downfall of liberality the modern institution of
veranstaltlichte Kunst (institutionalized art Arnold Hauser) and its social legitimacy are
also increasingly called into question. Illiberal Arts is a search for forms concerning an
artistic Lebensarbeit (life's work Lu Märten publicist and art critic 1879-1970) initiated
with international artists poets and authors. In the cracks of the decaying forms of market
accumulation anti-identitarian communal horizons burst open as do collective forms of
perception and political spontaneities. The project subjects these to a practical test. For Lu
Märten a person's whole life's work was considered artistic what was artistic didn't always
have to become art. Perhaps what became art doesn't necessarily have to remain art either. With
contributions by Juliana Spahr Rosalind C. Morris Aristilde Paz Justine Kirby Övül Ö.
Durmusoglu Ana Teixeira Pinto Simone White Frank Engster Lisa Jechske and MYSTI Jenny
Nachtigall Fumi Okiji Larne Abse Gogarty arán Finlayson Danny Hayward Em Hedditch Marina
Vishmidt Danny Hayward a.o.
