Honesty with the real

Abstract

This article explores the re-politization of art that is taking place nowadays, with the aim to go beyond the duality representation/transformation as the two activities of political art. It proposes the concept of “honesty with the real”, as a way to think about art as a form of treatment. How do we handle reality and deal with reality? This question leads us to think about affect as a form of violence and to propose a new sense of engagement and intervention. Marina Garcés (Barcelona 1973) is Professor of Philosophy at Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) and invited professor in several International Masters. She is the author of the books Un mundo común (A common world, Acuarela Libros, 2012) and En las prisiones de lo posible (In the prisons of the possible, Barcelona 2002). Since 2003, she coordinates the activity of Espai en Blanc Foundation, dedicated to the promotion and intervention of a critical and experimental thought.