Aesthetic Responsibility

Abstract

In this conversation artist Krzysztof Wodiczko and cultural theorist Marc James Léger discuss examples from the historic avant-gardes in light of more contemporary projects, including Wodiczko's Arc de Triomphe World Institute for the Abolition of War. They discuss how the historical avant-garde took responsibility for its art as if it was non-art, transformed into life. Mentioned is the nomadological architecture of Lucien Kroll, the solvism of Atelier Van Lieshout, the autonomous activism of Tania Bruguera, the new productivism of Las Agencias, and the social projects of Thomas Hirschhorn.