Art and Politics: Sketching a Post-Ottoman Cartography

这项研究探索了在后奥斯曼帝国空间中叙述艺术与差异和归属感政治的融合的方法。后奥斯曼帝国是对近东和中东社会的最新史学标签，其特点是遗留下来的超种族和多教派生活，在国有化过程中经历了残酷的同质化。实地考察工作将涉及与雅典、伊斯坦布尔和尼科西亚的艺术家和策展人合作，以了解这些遗产如何在艺术品和表演中发挥作用，如何在艺术实践中谈判差异，以及在哪些方面登记这些要求以获得承认。这项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下的宫廷进行归类。最近，博里奥在参与式行为艺术中的“关系美学”受到了人类学的特别关注，以及这些实践如何受到政治的影响，以及这些实践本身如何构成政治行为。然而，这篇论文将选择保持艺术和政治的中等特殊性，并保留后奥斯曼帝国领域的特殊性。这将意味着在人类学处理艺术品的重要性的传统下工作，并动员这种阅读纳入政治。其结果将是一幅富有感情的地图，符合艺术品的物质特殊性、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.