Un examen de diverses formes de pratiques esthétiques vues à travers le prisme de ce que l'historien de l'art Sven Lütticken nomme la révolution culturelle néolibérale.
In this collection of essays, art historian and critic Sven Luütticken focuses on aesthetic practice in a rapidly expanding cultural sphere. He analyzes its transformation by the capitalist cultural revolution, whose reshaping of art's autonomy has wrought a field of afters and posts. In a present moment teeming with erosions—where even history and the human are called into question—Cultural Revolution: Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy reconsiders these changing values, for relegating such notions safely to the past betrays their possibilities for potential today.
Luütticken discusses practices that range from Black Mask to Subversive Aktion, from Krautonomy to Occupy, from the Wet Dream Film Festival in the early 1970s to Jonas Staal's recently established New World Academy. Within these pages Scarlett Johansson meets Paul Chan, Walid Raad, and Hito Steyerl, and Dr. Zira from Planet of the Apes mingles with the likes of Paul Lafargue and Alexandre Kojève.
Critique d'art et historien, professeur à la VU University d'Amsterdam, Sven Lütticken contribue régulièrement à des catalogues et à des revues telles que Artforum, New Left Review, Afterimage et Texte zur Kunst.
Il est l'auteur de Secret Publicity: Essays on Contemporary Art (NAi publishers,
Rotterdam, 2006) et commissaire des expositions Life, Once More: Forms of Reenactment
in Contemporary Art (Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2005) et The Art of
Iconoclasm (BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2009).
