Borrowing Without Giving Back
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Appropriation
Fall 2019
Contemporary art practices are constantly going outside the field of art to appropriate the codes, gestures, and mechanisms of other social and cultural spheres. However, appropriation also involves the question of social responsibility with regards to artists and curators, particularly in recent debates around cultural appropriation. The aim of this issue is to take some distance from the polarization of the controversies so as to try to better understand what these various forms of appropriation show us about current artistic creation at the aesthetic, ethical, and political levels.
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Artistic Appropriation Versus Cultural Appropriation
Against Innovation: Appropriation and Disruption in the Age of Immaterial Bondage
Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Expropriation as Art Practice
Art: Whose Legacy?
Appropriation. Panel discussion
Cultural Imperative, Appropriationist Regime and Visual Art
Kanata: Appropriation or Erasure?
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