“Livre VI” of the (SIC) journal takes the form of a book by Dutch-speaking Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage (director of RITS | School of Arts). “Art, Research and Politics. Essays in Curatorial Criticism (1999-2014)” spans fifteen years of Lesage's critical interventions in the field of art, politics, and culture, analyzing and unraveling curatorial rhetorics and strategies which during that period marked the so-called art world.
(SIC) is an annual Belgian magazine adopting a specific art history approach to deal with modern and contemporary art.
The eponymous association also publishes theoretical books, monographs and artist's books (see the corresponding
publisher's page).
Dieter Lesage (born 1966) is a Belgian
philosopher, writer and critic. A Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Arts at the Department of Audiovisual and Performing Arts Rits (Erasmus University College Brussels) and a Professor of Art Criticism at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he is the author of numerous books on contemporary art and the relationship between art and politics.
