Por um conceito do político na arte contemporânea: o fator Santiago Sierra

Abstract

The approach to the idea of politics in contemporary art constitutes the core of this thesis. The work of artist Santiago Sierra makes up its central focus and, more specifically, the particular corpus of his work assembled under the label "remunerated aesthetics". Some of my personal work, produced during the same time period in which I was doing my PHD research, is considered here as part of the methodology. They make part of this thesis as a discursive device of "digression", insinuating themselves as belonging to that field sketched by the embedment of politics and art. Our goal is not to describe the possible articulations of those two particular fields in contemporary art, which certainly are vast and multiple. We limited our research to the specific consideration of Santiago Sierra´s work as a vital and invaluable contribution to a meaningful approach of the concept of politics in contemporary art.