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The Shape of Art to Come 3

The Shape of Art to Come – Seminar series by Hans-Jürgen Hafner, third and final session: On Autonomy, Use Value and the Future Past of Briefing Room.
Resources: André Breton "First and second Surrealist Manifesto", Thierry de Duve "The Invention of Non-Art: A Theory", Dean Kissick "The Painted Protest. How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art", Sven Lütticken and Maria Vishmidt "Genealogies of Autonomy"

Hans-Jürgen Hafner: "The lesson that Surrealism of the 1920s teaches us as an artistic movement that is both aesthetically and politically radical is to assert radicalism in the consistent separation of art and politics." (Photo: Steffen Zillig)
(Photo: Steffen Zillig)
(Photo: Steffen Zillig)
Hans-Jürgen Hafner: "Without agreeing with Dean Kissick's recent diagnosis that art has destroyed itself through its further politicization, he nevertheless demonstrates how the politicization of contemporary art has turned it into a historical episode that has come to an end. The time is ripe for art to become contemporary again." (Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
Hans-Jürgen Hafner: "The shape of an art to come is very much related to the question of how to make proper use of art under current conditions. To use art exactly "as art" makes its use value on an aesthetic, social and historic level." (Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
(Photo: Andrzej Steinbach)
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