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A proposal by Ariane Daoust : Grève de l’art?
Ariane Daoust is interested in the concept of Degrowth and its artistic potential. The exhibition Grève de l’art? offers a historical perspective on different art-strike propositions as well as their instigators. Daoust proposes a moment of reflection, and an opportunity to raise questions and to construct heuristic and theoretic potentialities.
The exhibition allows for a reflexion on the relevance, the meaning and the subversive potential of an art strike in the present socio-economical context. Would it be an incentive to escape the realities of this world? to modify them? Would it allow for a different comprehension of artistic practice and a different place for art in society?
Ariane Daoust turns Skol into a documentation centre, presenting a conceptual, theoretical and textual contributions that address these questions.
Interpretive resources provided by the artist
Art Strike Papers (http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/artstrik.htm)
Alytus Art Strike Biennale (http://www.3.alytusbiennial.com)
Photos: Guy L’Heureux
Publication Grève de l'art en françaisAriane Daoust practices idleness in the field of art and beyond, and is currently working on a PhD on the subject at the University of Québec in Montréal. She organizes exhibitions and other discursive events that are at once discrete and decreative, while never entirely abstaining from writing on the conditions of possibility and enactment of an art of degrowth.
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