Organizational Aesthetics: On Certain Practices and Genealogies∗.

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  • Author(s): Lütticken, Sven
  • Source:
    October. Winter2023, Issue 183, p17-49. 33p. 1 Illustration.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Relational art; Social theory; Activists; Social change; Social conflict; Social hierarchies; Fraser, Andrea; Social development; Cultural values
    • Abstract:
      "Organizational Aesthetics" traces the genealogies of artistic practices engaging socially, politically, and aesthetically with form to enter into fundamental debates about hierarchy, horizontality, and centralization. Against the background of historical conflicts over relational aesthetics and tactical media, the essay problematizes the exclusive focus on physical gatherings as the exclusive site of relationality. Instead, it offers an analysis that revolves around the dialectic of such gatherings and the organizational and technological structures that subtend and transcend them. Spanning the mid-1990s to the present, this account of organizational aesthetics includes critical discussions of artists, activists, theorists, and collectives including BüroBert, Alice Creischer, Andrea Fraser, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Geert Lovink, ruangrupa, and Jonas Staal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]