art in and of itself is not liberating; it either is or isn’t depending on the type of capacity it sets in motion, on the extent to which its nature is shareable or universalizable.
[…]An art is emancipated and emancipating when it renounces the authority of the imposed message, the target audience, and the univocal mode of explicating the world, when, in other words, it stops wanting to emancipate us.
[…]there is a more positive attempt today to give form to a continuity between artistic creativity and the forms of creativity manifested in objects and behaviors that testify to everyone’s capacities and to our inherent powers of resistance.
[…]Dissensus is a modification of the coordinates of the sensible, a spectacle or a tonality that replaces another.
[…]These are a few examples … of what “dissensus” might signify: a way of reconstructing the relationship between places and identities, spectacles and gazes, proximities and distances.
[…]Emancipation is the possibility of a spectator’s gaze other than the one that was programmed.
Art of the Possible: An interview with Jacques Ranciere, Fulvia Carnevale and John Kelsey, ArtForum March 2007.
