Hito Steyerl

Duty Free Art

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  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    museums have less to do with the past than with the future: conservation is less about preserving the past than it is about creating the future of public space, the future of art, and the future as such
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    It enters into the project of re-creating not only the city, but society itself. And here, we again encounter the idea of play. To play is to re-actualize the rules as one goes along. Or to create rules that demand new actualization every time
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    On the one hand, play is about rules, which must be mastered if one is to proceed. On the other, play is also about the improvised creation of new, common rules. So reenactment is scrapped in favor of gaming moving towards play, which may or may not be another form of acting
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    But it is public access, to a certain degree, that makes art what it is in the first place, thus necessitating its conservation.
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    The corresponding institutional model for art is freeport art storage, built on tax-exempt status and tactical extraterritoriality
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    Besides the international biennial, duty free art storage is probably the most important contemporary active form for art. It’s like the dystopian backside of the biennial, at a time when liberal dreams of globalization and cosmopolitanism have been realized as a multipolar mess peopled with oligarchs, warlords, too-big-to-fail corporations, dictators, and lots of newly stateless people.10
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    In such a situation, one might be tempted to rehash Marx’s idea of historical repetition as farce. Marx thought that historical repetition—let alone reenactments—produces ludicrous results. However, quoting Marx, or indeed any historical figure, would itself constitute repetition, if not farce
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted5 years ago
    On the contrary, this kind of history is partial, partisan, and privatized, a self-interested enterprise, a means to feel entitled, an objective obstacle to coexistence, and a temporal fog detaining people in the stranglehold of imaginary origins.2 The tradition of the oppressed turns into
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