Subversive Performance in the Age of Human Capital (1st ed. 2023)

Contemporary art relies on an expansionist, modernist ideal and still progresses through a critique of earlier forms of democratisation. But beneath this democratic drive, lurks a creeping crisis. Under neoliberalism, criticality has become a zone of value production. A self-deprecating irony, exposing and re-enacting this position of impotence, is one of the few gestures left in the arsenal of critical art. Against this irony, this book pits overidentification. This term has been taken to mean a kind of parodic mimicry of institutional power. Using a broad tapestry of sources, from political philosophers to art theorists, from post-Marxist critiques of labour to ethnographic studies, it proposes an interpretation of overidentification that does not collapse into ironic posturing. The authors differentiate this from bad faith flirting with taboo aesthetics by focusing on practices grounded in a genuine identification with power that ushers the kind of excess implied by overidentification. It is these forms of overidentification that destabilise the metastasis of liberal-democracy. Staging forms of critique not so readily absorbed into the structure of the present, these subversive performances herald a future beyond the democratic paradox.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2023
Authors:	Pil Kollectiv • Galia Kollectiv
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Pages:	280
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-135814-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	3-03-135814-7
Barcode:	9783031358142

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