Cecilia’s Presentation

I was intrigued by the Ai Weiwei exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark, and how the artist was portrayed as having two ‘personalities’: artist and activist. http://www.louisiana.dk/uk/Menu/Exhibitions/Ai+Weiwei

This reminded me then of an article, on e-flux, about the shift from profession to occupation. From work to way of living.  http://www.e-flux.com/journal/art-as-occupation-claims-for-an-autonomy-of-life-12/

In that sense, I am then interested in exploring ways in which the visual arts can be a means of resistance, being an aesthetic act that somehow brings about the possibility of affirming people’s humanity and therefore fostering change (maybe through the dissensus it creates?)