The Dialogic Boycott (original) (raw)

ASAP10: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Conference, 2018

Abstract

This paper surveys recent debates in the art field surrounding boycott and the tactical withdrawal of labor, and examines the conditions under which art workers refuse the imperative to engage in “sensible dialogue.” What generative potential, I ask, might lie in artists tactically withholding participation? How might artists’ refusal to generate discourse result in transformative discursive possibilities? Countering the claim that the boycott is tantamount to the foreclosure of speech, I argue that boycotts surface the many silences embedded in the nominally dialogic field of contemporary art. The practices attendant to boycott, I contend, serve as tactics fir reorganizing the terms of artistic and political discourse under conditions of pervasive crisis.

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