Powerful Art and Power - Jessica Stockholder

None of these thinkers focuses on art, although each writes in such a way that an artist might feel, one way or another, implicated.

I think I want to believe that powerful art is a critique of power.

From Said, I have the idea of the amateur, and of the necessity to find reconciliation between intractable opposition.

From Agamben, the notion of the gesture, that ideas and objects find meaning through mobile constellations that rupture boundaries.

From Emerson, the idea of the present as the practice of active thought.

From Heraclitus, the idea of mindfulness within change.

From Butler, the idea of precariousness in relation to violence and mourning.

From Foulcault, the denial of universality and the consciousness of structures.

From Arendt, the scruple of fearless skepticism.

From Deleuze: oppostion to vertical hierarchies.

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