4 days ago
The News International
artFor Marx and his followers, the arts produced under capitalism does nothing to harmonise the faculties but instead simply keep people immune to their suffering. For the political stance of the arts, thus its aesthetic restoration, it is necessary to give the conscious artist an agency. The exhibition provided the audience with a unique opportunity to connect with the thesis projects and the students who developed them. By practicing critical theory, the creative individual can promote factual reality and an idealised version of reality and in doing so, bind ‘practice/theory’ together. As a reflexive practice, the arts’ role is to help us move forward, and equip us to instigate transformative outcomes.
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