Marine Khachatryan
Art historian and critic, student of the Institute of Contemporary Art, columnist on the "Critical Journal" website
When I visited Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK)in 2016 I saw many works which were far from secular convivality and worldliness and as Alain Badiou said they were fraught with body, ending, death, suffering, cruelty and sexuality....
In his ''Postmodernism and Consumer Society'' American theorist Fredric Jameson claims that contemporary art operates against society as a critic, a disruptive and opponent power; it was a provocative challenge to the principles that existed in the society of...
The concepts of modernism and postmodernism are considered to be fashionable concepts that meet in a plenty of literature. Rather than avoiding to explore these conceptions labeling them as widely debated buzzwords this article will examine the contours of...