[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 17 Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang

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*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 17 Militant Aesthetics with Martin Lang*
https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions

For this episode we talk with art historian and painter Martin Lang 
about this book /Militant Aesthetics: Art Activism in the 21st Century/. 
How are practices of art activism changing in the current political and 
media climate? What tensions exist within these forms of political 
engagement and how can they be productively worked with rather ignored 
or denied?

 From the description of the book: “Protest art is not a new concept and 
yet this book argues that after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 distinctly 
21st-century forms of art activism emerged. On the one hand these became 
militant as artists retained belief in the possibility of radical 
political change through art. On the other hand, this belief developed 
in a hostile environment, when anti-terror legislations reclassified 
activists and artists as terrorists. Militant Aesthetics sheds light on 
numerous international case studies of modern art activism and the 
different ways they can be classified as militant. Combining these 
examples with the pioneering thought of Badiou, Žižek, Rancière and 
Mouffe, Lang investigates the instances, attributes and rules of 
militant art in order to introduce a new overall theory of 21st-century 
militant aesthetics.”

*Bio:* Martin Lang is Senior Lecturer in fine art at the University of 
Lincoln, UK. He trained as a painter before completing a PhD in History 
& Philosophy of Art, researching militant forms of art activism. He 
makes paintings, photographs and activist actions that tackle themes of 
authenticity, science fiction, political imagination and post-truth. 
Martin's research in art and politics has been widely published in 
academic journals including Art & the Public Sphere, Ekphrasis and the 
Hazlitt Review. His book, /Militant Aesthetics/ (Bloomsbury 2024) has 
been described as "a significant remapping of activist and political 
art" (Karen van den Berg). He also writes for Trebuchet magazine and the 
Conversation.

Intro / Outro Music: Joseph Beuys - Sonne statt Reagan








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