e-flux journal: Going Public

Boris Groys

• Other Authors Anton Vidokle (Editor), Julieta Aranda (Editor), Brian Kuan Wood (Editor)
• Title

  e-flux journal: Going Public

• Date 2010
• ISBN 9781934105306
• Publisher Berlin, Germany / New York: Sternberg Press
• Description 168 p.; 7 in
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art—which always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place (e-Flux).

• Tags Anthology, Art criticism, Art theory, Critical theory, Essay, Philosophy, Political science