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micro-utopias

​edited with Ruy Blanes, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, and Maïté Maskens, open-access special issue of the Journal of Art and Anthropology 5.1 (2016)

Short description
As a point of departure for this conversation, we chose the curatorial proposition of “micro-utopias” and instances of relational art as an example of a canonised but provocative concept from the artistic field that prompts three principal questions of relevance to this issue and the wider intervention we propose. First, how do artists engage with art theory and therefore how do their negotiations become part of and constitute art as a dynamic theoretical field? Second, how can micro-utopias (as an example of such artistic theorisation) become an analytic beyond what might be considered part of art worlds? And third, how can such dynamic theorisations feed back into anthropological concepts and practice? The framework of this special issue, and the contributions we have assembled, respond to and engage with this concept by throwing light on anthropological thinking about subjectivity, the negotiation of meaning, post-democracy, citizenship and the state, self-cultivation, exchange, and methodology.

Contributors
Neylan Bağcıoğlu, Jan-Jonathan Bock, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Tomás Sánchez Criado e Adolfo Estalella, Alex Flynn, Anne-Sophie Reichert,Roger Sansi, Floris Schuiling, Jonas Tinius

Read the special issue here
​​https://journals.openedition.org/cadernosaa/999