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Democracy
Esse proposes a critical reflection on the concept of democracy in order to explore its inherent contradictions and its real lived fallout, as well as the role that art can play within it. By bringing together multiple, open, and possibly divergent positions, the feature section addresses the urgent need to better understand art’s role in the current political context in order to potentially foster a desire to participate in a new democracy.
Editorial
Feature
Democracy Without Guarantees
Democratic Art
The Gift of Listening: From Speakers to Listening Agents
Probing the Body Politic: Limits, Memory, and Anxiety in Art after Democracy Can no Longer be Assumed
(Re)Negotiating Every. Now. Then‘s Invisible Centre: Institutional White Spatiality
To Walk Together: Democracy in Movement?
Multitudes, Swarms, Communities1
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Tourism
Spring Summer 2024
Because it is essential for it to be open to the world, art is particularly affected by concerns related to planetary travel. From a position at the intersection of contemporary art, leisure, ecology, and destination culture, Esse no. 111 observes artists’ and critical thinkers’ strategies for revisiting the very notion of tourism. Although the harmful impacts of the tourism industry are beyond question, the thematic section avoids falling prey to tourismphobia and simply pointing out its failures. Rather, this issue offers a guided tour of situations and places where art and tourism converge.