Description

This book has been produced for the exhibition “Forms of Distancing: Representative Politics and the Politics of Representation,” curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol and Luigi Fassi for the most recent steirischer herbst festival in Graz. Various forms of contemporary art are currently exploring the notion of achieving distance—in the sense of restraint—within the conflicting fields of representational political analysis and the formal presentation of an art form. “Forms of Distancing” sets out to take a closer look at the concept of representation in its artistic and political manifestations, while also examining what acts of distancing imply with regard to the politics of sharing and not sharing.