Santiago Sierra – ‘works are exemplary of a certain tendency in contemporary art, in which artists, faced by a world which is more than ever ruled by a calculating cynicism, strategically give up their will to resist, capitulate on the status-quo and apply the latter’s rules even more consistently and scrupulously than the rest of society.’
‘Sierra provokes by asking why should art be an exception when it comes to ruthlessly exploiting cheap labour for self-enrichment and ask why art cannot be as nakedly self-interested and capitalist as everything else in the ‘real’ world’.
‘Art of over-identification asks of artists to ignore society’s pathetic demand for small creative acts and, inversely, to uncompromisingly identify with the ruling order itself and to get to act out its logic in its most extreme, dystopian form’
Sabotages ‘society’s tendency to delegate its task of resistance to the safe haven of art’
NGO artists – no call for hight art statements, big political manifestos or sublime expressions of moral indignation, instead these artists use direct, concrete, community based interventions – concern for social empowerment.
This type of art is seen as a valued ally of the current capitalist system – art as social work. ‘The crucial question is whether NGO artists, with their micro-interventions, also politicise the larger injustices and skewed power relations that are at play in the context in which they operate – do they also problematise the mechanisms responsible?
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