Such economic abstraction is primarily addressed in art as a subject or theme, but in Deleuze and Guattari's notion of art as abstract machine possibilities emerge for art's role in the construction of a new kind of social reality.In more recent art a third strand emerges: a form of social abstraction centred on the strategy of withdrawal. (amazon.co.uk)
For the pilot semester beginning October 3, and its theme of «New Social Abstractions,» leading artists - theorists Hito Steyerl, Simon Denny, Evan Calder Williams, and writer Ana Teixeira Pinto will lead an exploration into new levels of complexity that organize our modern world and discuss new kinds of artistic production that this development may demand (resnicow.com)
David Huffman continues his ongoing investigation into social abstraction by repeating a kneeling figure of Colin Kaepernick across wood panel, recalling how the Black Panther logo itself was also urgently replicated. (galerielelong.com)