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Vickery, Jonathan (2016) Virno, Gerz, and an art for the multitude. Zbornik radova Fakulteta dramskih umetnosti, 28 (1). pp. 243-256. ISSN 1450-5681.
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Abstract
This paper brings together Paolo Virno's concept of 'multitude' and Jochen Gerz's 'Public Authorship' so as to further current debates on the public role of art in European cities. From Virno's seminal text, A Grammar of the Multitude (2004) I extrapolate a conception of 'public'; and from a seminal art project by Jochen Gerz (in the UK city of Coventry from 1999-2004) I extrapolate a conception of participation. Considering them in relation to each other, I offer a series of theoretical reflections on the critical power of art to affect change in civic space. I use Virno's theoretical observations on the current state of citizenship and the social order in order to open a discussion on Gerz's engagement with the residents (citizens and non-citizens) of the city of Coventry. In so doing I consider our current assumptions on the nature of civic democracy, with particular reference to Virno's observations on the attenuation of democracy in a post-Fordist global economic order. Finally, I draw attention to what I see as the potential of the concept of 'multitude' for a critical art practice for a local (globalised) public civic realm, and identify aspects of Gerz's project that provokes reflection on the dilemmas of using culture as stimulus for civic-democratic participation today.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Zbornik radova Fakulteta dramskih umetnosti | ||||||
Publisher: | University of thee Arts Belgrade | ||||||
ISSN: | 1450-5681 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 28 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 243-256 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 February 2019 | ||||||
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