Tuesday, 24 November 2015, 06–08 pm

Contemporary art plays an often underestimated role in the way knowledge societies and knowledge economies are organized. The lecture seeks to underpin this perhaps unusual assertion. First, the functions of fine art at the points of transition from the Fordist to the post-Fordist accumulation regime (since the 1960s and 70s) will be discussed. Then, based on this, the question is raised as to how today’s biennales, fairs, academies, publications, or self-organized contexts of contemporary art position themselves toward the neoliberal capitalization of knowledge. A special focus is on the role of the advocate or promoter of suppressed, marginalized, or endangered forms of knowledge often adopted by actors of the art world as if it were a matter of course. But how „political“ is this position in truth?