Why questions of form are no side issue
Arguing about chairs, graphics and furniture does not necessarily mean missing the point. A case for precision of form.
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Art should take risks. It does not follow that its creators must live without security. This week’s articles lead us to a distinction that matters for cultural policy: between the risk a work takes and the risk involved in creating it.
READ MOREArguing about chairs, graphics and furniture does not necessarily mean missing the point. A case for precision of form.
→Repetition need not mean retreating into the familiar. It can give the new the very chance it needs to become more than an announcement.
→Bernd Bartolome works at the intersections of art, philosophy and artificial intelligence. His work combines artistic research with new forms of knowledge, communication and publishing.
→Preserving culture, making it accessible, opening it up digitally: all this sounds self-evidently good. But this week’s articles also show why access must not be confused with unrestricted availability.
→Not every gap needs to be filled. On a culture that looks closely without defining people and history once and for all.
→Free admission helps. But socially inclusive cultural policy must also consider time, travel and the feeling of being welcome in a museum.
→Art depicts people; institutions invite them in. But who sets the rules? A case for participation that goes beyond visibility.
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