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(2020) STVK02 20192Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- One of todays most refined contemporary art institutions resides in a former oil fired turbine plant. Here at Tate Modern, named after the sugar magnate Henry Tate, the activist group Liberate Tate initiates a six year battle over the prerogative concerning a sponsorship deal with the oil giant BP. It is a battle over the discourse of climate change, extraction of natural resources and profit use for cultural imperialism. The battle goes on between 2010 and 2016 when the sponsorship suddenly is terminated. What happened
Using Carol Bacchis What’s the problem represented to be as method, and with Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben as theoretical backdrop, this thesis pays interest to the potentially sovereign authority of... (More) - One of todays most refined contemporary art institutions resides in a former oil fired turbine plant. Here at Tate Modern, named after the sugar magnate Henry Tate, the activist group Liberate Tate initiates a six year battle over the prerogative concerning a sponsorship deal with the oil giant BP. It is a battle over the discourse of climate change, extraction of natural resources and profit use for cultural imperialism. The battle goes on between 2010 and 2016 when the sponsorship suddenly is terminated. What happened
Using Carol Bacchis What’s the problem represented to be as method, and with Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben as theoretical backdrop, this thesis pays interest to the potentially sovereign authority of the author function. Primarily it discusses potentials and implications associated with artistic agency in the public realm for political reasons. (Less) - Popular Abstract
- One of todays most refined contemporary art institutions resides in a former oil fired turbine plant. Here at Tate Modern, named after the sugar magnate Henry Tate, the activist group Liberate Tate initiates a six year battle over the prerogative concerning a sponsorship deal with the oil giant BP. It is a battle over the discourse of climate change, extraction of natural resources and profit use for cultural imperialism. The battle goes on between 2010 and 2016 when the sponsorship suddenly is terminated. What happened
Using Carol Bacchis What’s the problem represented to be as method, and with Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben as theoretical backdrop, this thesis pays interest to the potentially sovereign authority of... (More) - One of todays most refined contemporary art institutions resides in a former oil fired turbine plant. Here at Tate Modern, named after the sugar magnate Henry Tate, the activist group Liberate Tate initiates a six year battle over the prerogative concerning a sponsorship deal with the oil giant BP. It is a battle over the discourse of climate change, extraction of natural resources and profit use for cultural imperialism. The battle goes on between 2010 and 2016 when the sponsorship suddenly is terminated. What happened
Using Carol Bacchis What’s the problem represented to be as method, and with Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben as theoretical backdrop, this thesis pays interest to the potentially sovereign authority of the author function. Primarily it discusses potentials and implications associated with artistic agency in the public realm for political reasons. (Less)
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- author
- Grapengiesser, Gustaf Dempe Duse LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- En studie av politisk handling som konstnärlig praktik
- course
- STVK02 20192
- year
- 2020
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- political agency, author function, public realm
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8999682
- date added to LUP
- 2020-03-02 09:38:31
- date last changed
- 2020-03-02 09:38:31
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