Artistic practice is likewise
no substitute political practice but the important point here is that it also should not be dismissed as a potential opening into a prefigurative practice of institution building.
Not exact matches
So the Supreme Court, when it
practices judicial activism, undercuts democratic participation not only by
substituting its own assertoric judgment for democratic deliberation, or by ignoring the plain letter of the constitution in favor of its own
political inclinations, but also by understanding itself as a council of philosopher kings (versus really good lawyers) prudentially adjusting the fundamental nature of American democracy to fit the ever changing historical horizon that provides the context for its expression.
The exhibition brings together a great range of artistic
practices and languages (photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation...), cultures, geographic origins, generations and experiences, to establish a tension between extremely different artistic approaches: melancholy of vanity, ironic play with identity,
political biography and existential questioning, the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment of its symbolic
substitute.