Given the current political climate, we here at frieze have been reflecting on the role of art in responding to conflict. The submissions, by more than 50 respondents from over 30 countries are provocative and enlightening. Further contributions to the print version are included here, from around the world.
He is participating in the inaugural Honolulu Biennial, which runs until 8 May. Vernon Ah Kee, Authors of Devastation , , acrylic on linen, 2. Courtesy: the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane. His work is included in the Sharjah Biennial until 12 June.
Jonathas de Andrade, O Levante The Uprising , β13, performance documentation in Recife, where horse carts are banned. Daniel G. His work is included in documenta Art must be a sign of resistance to a political model that is increasingly hierarchical, diffuse, global and standardized.
The public stage has become a sort of orchestrated video game β a frivolous, ridiculous operetta with a few recited parts that are performed daily before a people overwhelmed by the consequences of the crisis.
This is the criminalization of protest, which leads to the brutalization of audiences implemented by refined political techniques β in short, to audiences that dare practise disobedience to the rules imposed by the institution, such as transgression, insubordination, the creation of new political experiences or the rehearsal of new voices. Democracy has become an aesthetic matter. I want to get away from unilateral, closed discourses affording no possibility for response, participation or interaction.
