BETWEEN FASCISM AND COMMUNISM: THE AESTHETICIZATION OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICIZATION OF ART

This is a follow-up of the reading group on Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.

We ran out of time to read Timothy O’Leary’s text Fat, Felt and Fascism: The Case of Joseph Beuys.

This discussion will include the essay by Boris Groys On art activism, which makes reference both to Beuys and Marinetti whom “Benjamin calls as the crucial witness when, in the afterword to his famous essay about “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”