Workshop III: Zwischen Postfordismus und politischer Performance

Having being practically absent from modern aesthetics for a hundred years, the concept of virtuosity is suddenly reappearing in debates on performance art at the beginning of the twenty-first century. With the boundary between artistic performance and political intervention being increasingly often overstepped by both sides, Hannah Arendt’s claim that political action possesses a virtuosic quality is becoming topical once again. On the other hand, the post-Fordist economy is absorbing the artistic and political virtues of playing, working and living together. How can art respond to these new challenges? Are there any strategies to turn ”servile virtuosity” (Paolo Virno) into a non-servile virtuosity, to reactivate the political potential of virtuosity in artistic performance?

Konzept / Idee: Kai van Eikels
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Jan Holger Mauss
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Tino Sehgal