Thesis Supervisor: Rachel O'Reilly

Thesis: Capital-as-Power: elaborating strategies in and through art in the financial and political contemporary

June 2017

Abstract

My thesis seeks to analyze the location of contemporary art within the current composition of global capital. Through such an analysis I hope to map the barriers and potentials for political and artistic participation under the conditions identified. In chapter one I will formulate and analyze the state of contemporary art through discursive¨ material and economic perspectives. Further, through positioning the narrative of the contemporary as proposed by Peter Osborne and later on the identification of the contemporary by Suhail Malik, I elaborate a genealogy of the present based on two distinct ontologies of avantgarde practice.

Author: Sonia Kazovsky