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On the Question of the Political Exhibition

James David Morgan wrote this post at 11:47 am on November 6th, 2008.

“A specter is haunting Europe”, the specter of the political exhibition.

Dmitry Vilenksy, of the art collective Chto Delat?, delivered a talk at the Sydney Social Forum in September 2005 on the “repoliticization” of art, and the nature of contemporary political exhibitions.  His analysis has been edited and published here.

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