The Autonomy Project Symposium addresses the position of art in society today. The notion of autonomy, once designed to specify art\u2019s place within society, has become a means of occluding its public relevance. This has become very clear when recently Dutch neoliberals and populists proposed large cuts on culture, arguing that art is primarily a private affair and has no real public function. The inability of the Dutch art world to mount an effective counter campaign has thereby made explicit the fact that the confusion \u00a0\u00a0concerning the public nature of an autonomous art comes not only from without but also from within.<\/p>\n
The symposium wishes to address the current situation through the work of the French philosopher Jacques Ranci\u00e8re. He has been committed to describing the function of art\u2019s autonomy within public\u00a0life today. Through a mixture of lectures and workshops the symposium explores Ranci\u00e8re\u2019s valuable contribution both from theoretical and practical perspectives.<\/p>\n
Participating in the symposium costs \u20ac45 for 3 days or\u00a0\u20ac15 per day (including lunch). Students are charged \u20ac25 for the whole weekend or \u20ac10 per day.<\/p>\n