“Art, politics and the cultural dating game” was written by Lucy Cotter for this issue of Brochure.
The article reflects on Relational Aesthetics, internal politics and asks the question whether critical thinking has any significant bearing on the current direction of contemporary art practice.
Lucy Cotter is an Irish writer and art critic based in Amsterdam. She was the editor of the Irish issue of Third Text, Routledge Press. She was the recipient of the Critical Voices Award 2003 and the Critical Reflection Award 2004 by the Arts Council of Ireland. She took part in “Here As The Centre Of The World” a trans national artistic research project for young artists from Beirut (Lebanon), Damascus (Syria), Diyarbakir (Turkey), Enschede (The Netherlands), Khartoum (Sudan) and Taipei (Taiwan).
