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Dark Matter
2017
Overview
What does one make of a conference entitled Marxism and Visual Arts Now (MAVAN), in which examples of contemporary visual art were all but absent and the few speakers who did address recent artistic practices hardly strayed from citing works and practices not already ensconced within the institutional art world? One possible explanation for this conspicuous absence is the understandable resignation that the progressive scholar or artist experiences when confronting a world dominated, almost without exception, by images of a triumphant, global capitalism. This gloom is unintentionally compounded by the MAVAN conference itself, in so far as it concentrates knowledge
