Functional and Dysfunctional Relations of Art, Science, and Health

Miško Šuvaković

doi:10.25038/am.v0i29.577

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Miško Šuvaković Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i29.577

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art, science; health; biopolitics; necropolitics; politics; ethics; forms of life; death.

Abstract

With this text, I intend to theoretically interpret the relations between historical and contemporary art, science, and health through the modalities of politics, ethics, and aesthetics. The first hypothesis points to the possibilities of the historical construction of discourse and visual representations of confronting the actions of biopolitics, necropolitics, and politics in a critical relationship between art, science, and health. The understanding of biopolitical and necropolitical functions and effects of science and medicine are re-examined, tested, and critically revealed in modern and contemporary artistic research. I will point to different functional and interventional modes of art: art as a symptom, art as a critical practice, art as a subversive practice and, most importantly, art as an emancipatory practice. I am interested in special cases: artistic provocations or subversion of ethical norms, activist questions about universal human and planetary ethical norms, and critical limits of medical morality and ethics.

Author Biography

Miško Šuvaković, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

Miško Šuvaković (b. 1954, Belgrade) is a Professor of Applied Aesthetics and Theory of Art and Media, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade (since 2015) and a former Professor of Applied Eesthetics: Faculty of Music, Belgrade (1996–2015). He was a member of the conceptual art Group 143 (1975–80). Miško is a member of the Slovenian Society of Aesthetics, a member of the Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts, and a former president of International Association for Aesthetics (IAA) 2019–22. He is the co-editor of Impossible Histories – Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes and Post-Avant-Gardes in Yugoslavia 1918–1991 (The MIT Press, 2003), and the author of Epistemology of Art (TkH Belgrade, Tanzquartier Vienna, 2008), The Clandestine Histories of the OHO Group (Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E., 2009) and The Neo-Aesthetics Theory (Hollitzer Verlag, 2017). His books in Serbian are: Konceptualna umetnost (MSUV, Novi Sad, 2008) and 3E: estetika, epistemologija i etika Spekuloativnih i De Re media (FMK, Beograd, 2020).

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