Fruitful artefacts: the role of artistic and creative practices within cultural organisations

Schrag, Anthony

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“…Reactivating the discussed concepts of constitutive outsides, articulations and inclusions-exclusions, Marchart's (2002) early question remains highly relevant: "What is public about the public space, andvice versa -what is spatial about the public sphere?" Following Marchart, my discussion revolves not so much around the overlapping meanings and potentials of participatory art, public art or not-so-public art, which are still controversially debated (Hildebrandt 2012;O'Kelly 2007;Schrag 2015), but instead on museums which might foster agonistic public space. Since Mouffe (2013a: 100) has argued that museums and art institutions could "be transformed into agonistic public spaces where [this] hegemony is openly contested", and very similarly (2013b: 74), that these institutions "could make a decisive contribution to the proliferation of new public spaces fomenting agonistic forms of participation where radical democratic alternatives to neoliberalism could be imagined and cultivated", I discuss museums as physical, discursive and affective spaces, locations, and places to foster and protect agonistic democracy.…”

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In this chapter, I examine the conceptual linkages between Chantal Mouffe's understanding of agonism and her elaborations on (public) space. With the objective to [un]ground her concept of 'agonistic public space', I set out to discuss Mouffe's more or less implicit notions of the ontology and conflictuality of space for critical geographies. While Mouffe's proclamation of the importance of agonism in public spaces has been paramount in her discussion about the (re)vitalization of pluralist democracies (cf. Mouffe 2005a; 2007), I argue that she has not sufficiently examined the diversely interrelated, power-inflected relations between agonism/antagonism, space/place and publicness. In other words, I subject Mouffe's widely referenced term of 'agonistic public space' (Tong 2015; Kastrissianakis/Galati 2010) to a comprehensive analysis of her understanding of space proper. In two sub-sections, I examine the interpenetrating connections between agonism and space (Section: A+S) and publicness and space (Section: P+S). I discuss manifest and latent interdependencies to ask what these adjectivized qualifications of space actually do for postfoundational theories of space. Subsequently, I turn to the spatial form of the museum to examine one concrete making or unmaking of agonistic public space in the Conflictorium, Museum of Conflict, in Ahmedabad, India. Based on the hypothesis that museums, or more precisely, radically democratic museums (Sternfeld 2018), could be agonistic public space in situ, I review existing accounts of activist museums (e.g., making museum space open and public for activists, making agonism public, agonizing museum publics etc.) and aim to draw attention to museums as critical urban infrastructures. I conclude by summarizing what critical geographers, urbanists and museum scholars can take away from Mouffe's notion of agonistic public space. In sum, the chapter

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