First, a different relationship between art practice and other modes of production …

Interviewee: Grant Kester

The first criterion is a different relationship between artistic practice and other modes of intellectual or cultural production, as I outlined already. There is quite a broad range of practice. Some projects are more overtly activist and others are less so. Second, there is a very different understanding of the relationship between the artist and the viewer. There is a commitment in this work to the forms of insight that are generated through processes of social interaction and intersubjective exchange, grounded in the context of resistance. Important forms of knowledge are produced through practice, about our capacities as social and political agents, about our ability to imagine the world differently, and about the values that structure our interrelationships with others.