Art and Politics: Sketching a Post-Ottoman Cartography

该研究探讨了如何叙述艺术的融合和政治的差异和归属在后奥斯曼空间。后奥斯曼帝国是近东和中东社会的一个最近的历史标签，其特征是超种族和多信仰生活的遗产，在国有化过程中经历了残酷的同质化。实地考察将涉及与雅典、伊斯坦布尔和尼科西亚的艺术家和策展人合作，以了解这些遗产在艺术品和表演中的特点，在艺术实践中如何协商差异，以及如何登记这些要求承认的声明。本研究试图解决的一个问题是如何处理后奥斯曼帝国领域的政治艺术，以及是否将其与其他背景进行分类。近年来，人类学特别关注参与性行为艺术中的布里奥的“关系美学”，以及这些实践如何既受到政治的影响，又构成政治行为。然而，本文将选择保持艺术和政治的媒介特异性，并保留后奥斯曼领域的特异性。这意味着在人类学传统中处理艺术品的物质性，并调动这种阅读来融入政治。其结果将是一个情感制图适合艺术对象的材料特性，历史遗产和政治激情。

The research explores ways in which to narrate the convergence of art and the politics of difference and belonging in post-Ottoman spaces. The post-Ottoman is a recent historiographic label for societies in the Near and Middle East, characterised by legacies of hyper-ethnic and multi-confessional life, which underwent brutal homogenisation in the course of nationalisation. The fieldwork will involve collaborating with artists and curators in Athens, Istanbul, and Nicosia, in order to see how these legacies feature in artworks and performances, how difference is negotiated in art praxis, and on what register these claims for recognition manifest. A question this research seeks to address is how to deal with political art in the post-Ottoman sphere and whether to group it with other contexts tout court. Recently, especialanthropological attention has been payed to Bourriaud's 'relational aesthetics' in participatory performance art and how these practices are both informed by politics and themselves constitute political acts. However, this dissertation, will opt to keep intact the medium specificity of art and politics and to preserve the specificity of the post-Ottoman sphere. This would mean to work within the anthropological tradition of dealing with the materiality of artworks and mobilise this reading to incorporate the political. The result will be an affective cartography befitting the material specificity of art objects, the historical legacies and political passions.