Boris Buden, Contemporary Populism and Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Language

Boris Buden, Contemporary Populism and Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Language

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Title Boris Buden, Contemporary Populism and Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Language
Type Lecture , Lecture series
Date 24 August 2019
Venue Museum of Modern Art
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production MG+MSUM
Language English
Format 1920x1080 pxl
Duration 60' 25"
URL http://www.mg-lj.si/en/events/2577/summer-school-2019-the-big-shift/
Registration number MG-2019-AKAD-518
Number of works in a group 11

Synopsis

The addressee of populism is commonly defined in cultural terms as a human embodiment of a specific way of life (culture?) considered common, average or ordinary. The avant-garde art, in contrast, epitomizes precisely the opposite: the exceptional, extraordinary or aberrant. Yet at the same time, it addresses what is common in artistic creation, its objects and its audiences ("everybody is an artist", "every sound is music"). This apparent contradiction makes sense only in the mirror of language, or, more precisely, in the way both contemporary populism and contemporary art use language and deal with its historical transformations.

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Editing (film, video) Dejan Habicht
Recording / camera Dejan Habicht