Rosanna McLaughlin investigates the consequences of this moralizing approach to creative work. She invites us to rethink the connection between political values and art and to ask whether a relationship between them should exist at all.
Aruna D'Souza draws from current events and contemporary art to suggest that a feeling of understanding or closeness based on emotional attachment fails to generate solidarity.
In The Curatorial Incitement to Discourse, Mick Wilson draws out the link between the imperative to generate discourse and the imperative to civilize that emerge in the genealogy of the salon, the exhibition complex, and the museum.