Gesprächsreihe documenta lessons: Artivism oder Über das Verlernen der Anmut

On June 17, as part of the event series “documenta lessons. Learning from, with and without art”, there will be a discussion with María do Mar Castro Varela and Luisa Standop.

In this conversation, María do Mar Castro Varela and Luisa Standop will ask how artivism - the fusion of art and activism - develops strategies and forms of expression that question or reorganize existing categories of perception. The discussion will go beyond the obvious contrasts between bourgeois aesthetics and artivism by exploring the multi-layered entanglements and contradictions on the way to a possible new definition of grace. Is art merely decoration or a potential tool for social change?