Kunst vs. Politik

“The social discourse accuses the artistic discourse of amorality and inefficacy because it is insufficient merely to reveal, reduplicate, and reflect upon the world. What matters is social change. The artistic discourse accuses the social discourse of remaining stubbornly attached to existing categories and focussing on micropolitical gestures at the expense of sensuous immediacy (as a potential locus of disalienation).”

(Nato Thompson, Living as Form. Socially engaged Art 1991-2011)