In the Flow

Thus, whatever else can be said about the contemporary museum, it has ceased to be a place of contemplation and meditation.

Traditional art produced art objects. Contemporary art produces information about art events.

Today’s artistic events cannot be preserved and contemplated like traditional artworks. However, they can be documented, ‘covered’, narrated and commented on

Such an imitation of the future cannot produce artworks. Rather, it produces artistic events, performances, temporary exhibitions that demonstrate the transitory character of the present order of things and the rules that govern contemporary social behaviour

contemporary art escapes the present not by resisting the flow of time but by collaborating with it

Contemplation of works of art took the place of the contemplation of the Platonic ideal or of God

Not accidentally, Malevich wrote in the copy of his book that he gave to poet Daniil Kharms, ‘Go and stop the progress.’

Michel Foucault stresses that the neoliberal concept of human capital has a utopian dimension – that it is, in fact, the utopian horizon of contemporary capitalism.7

The avant-garde of the first wave let the things – including things of art – go because it believed that something always remains.

two divergent and even contradictory notions, artistic aestheticization and design aestheticization. T