Abstract
Instead of opposing the glorious – or utopian – age of artistic and political modernism to the disenchanted age and the parodic forms of contemporary postmodernism, it seems more fruitful to distinguish between two ways of being contemporary to its own time. What did it mean for art to be contemporary in the age of Tatlin or Vertov? What does it mean for the artists of the beginning of the 21st century? How does each of those two forms of "contemporary art" deal with time and with the relation of time to space? How does that relation between time and space tie up with a different form of relation between art and life? This text addresses those issues by focusing on some contemporary works that restage the contemporary process of capitalism in the time of the video or the space of the photographic exhibition. It ends with an interrogation about the relation between the industrial desertification and the creation of new spaces for art.
First Page
173
Last Page
179
Recommended Citation
Jacques, Rancière. 2013. "What is The Time of Contemporary Art?." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (4): pp.173-179. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss4/25
