Repository 83: Refusal, the Political and Anti-Participation in Art

“Art is not beauty or novelty; art is effectiveness and disruption.” – León Ferrari A political system is all about the framework and defined methods of control. Political artists are all about breaking out of this control. By definition they are anti-system, anti-method, anti-participation, and in a word bold. I’ve always admired the urgency of some truly political artists, whose work demands attention given their personal history with a given politic that they are anxious to break down. One of…