something on political art


by Adrian Piper: ' A work of art can innovate in many ways (...) with the foundations of unrestrained free-market capitalism:(...) it can call into question the fundamental values of consumption. Art that satirise desire or sexuality or wealth or technology, or that calls attention to alternative value systems that oppose or reject these, or that requires criteria of aesthetic evaluation that are incompatible with them, or that invokes utopian social ideals of fairness and equality would exemplify such work.'