The Choreography of Biopolitical Ontologies. 'Baring Life' at the limits of the Secular (original) (raw)

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This paper explores the intersection of art and law through the lens of biopolitical ontologies, emphasizing how the commodification of life is represented visually. It reassesses the ways in which art can enforce normative frameworks and legal imaginations while questioning traditional boundaries of representation. Drawing on Agamben's concepts of zoē and bios, the study reflects on historical and contemporary practices that shape our understanding of corporeality in the context of modern crises.

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  1. Documenta11: "Documenta 11 rests on five platforms which aim to describe the present location of culture and its interfaces with other complex, global knowledge systems" (https://www.documenta.de/en/retrospective/documenta11). In a brilliant and exhaustive essay, Enwezor declares that "the logic of Documenta11 platforms was partly based on a set of discursive relationships between sites of theoretical practice and those of visual practice, each site elaborating on questions and ideas proper to its own field of discourse, but also interrogating assumptions accruing to other fields"; Enwezor, Okwui. "Documentary/Vérité: Bio-politics, Human Rights, and the Figure of "Truth" in Contemporary Art". Australian and New Zeland Journal of Art, (5:1) 2004, pp. 11-42, 24.
  2. For a compelling study on this matter, see Buchli, Victor. An Anthropology of Architecture. Bloomsbury, 2013.
  3. Enwezor, Okwui. "Documentary/Verité: The Figure of Truth in Contemporary Art". Experiments with Truth, edited by Mark Nash, The Fabric Worshop and Museum, 2005, p. 101. 33 For the definitions see Enwezor, Okwui. "Documentary/Verité, quoted, p. 101.
  4. Enwezor, Okwui. "Documentary/Verité, quoted, p. 101.
  5. It includes photographs taken by the Franco-Moroccan artist between 1998 and 2004.
  6. A clear example is offered by the photograph Advertisement Lightbox -Ferry Port Transit Area, Tangier (2003), which represents the refugee as a 'subject in becoming', as an identity that is taking shape