TY - JOUR
T1 - Fictions of the Possible
T2 - Art, the City, and Public Entrepreneurship
AU - Beyes, Timon
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - If the study of public entrepreneurship is directed at processes of social transformation, then it invariably encounters the manifold experiments of contemporary art and their socio-political effects. This short paper seeks to throw this encounter into sharper relief. After contextualizing the relation of art and social transformation, an example of a recent artistic intervention is presented. In conclusion, it is argued that art’s paradoxical potential to identify and disidentify with forms of life offers fictions of the possible: ambiguous, performative and preliminary reorderings of what can be perceived, expressed and done.
AB - If the study of public entrepreneurship is directed at processes of social transformation, then it invariably encounters the manifold experiments of contemporary art and their socio-political effects. This short paper seeks to throw this encounter into sharper relief. After contextualizing the relation of art and social transformation, an example of a recent artistic intervention is presented. In conclusion, it is argued that art’s paradoxical potential to identify and disidentify with forms of life offers fictions of the possible: ambiguous, performative and preliminary reorderings of what can be perceived, expressed and done.
KW - Art
KW - Aesthetics
KW - Public entrepreneurship
KW - Rancière
KW - International Institute of Political Murder
U2 - 10.1177/1056492615579792
DO - 10.1177/1056492615579792
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1056-4926
VL - 24
SP - 445
EP - 449
JO - Journal of Management Inquiry
JF - Journal of Management Inquiry
IS - 4
ER -