![]() I argue that 250cm is not a critique against white supremacy or a fantasy about the destruction of capitalism it is instead the aestheticization of racialized poverty and abjection. ![]() The purpose of this examination is to confront the construction and placement of performative terror, or terror situated as performance and how such enactments, using capital’s imagination, define alterity as raw and disposable material. In this essay I examine the politics, the financial structure, and the rhetoric surrounding Sierra’s gallery enactments, to situate a working definition of neoliberal aesthetics. Without the shield of conceptual performance art or exceptionalist applications of critical theory, Sierra’s projects and the responses to them may be viewed merely as examples of the cruelty of wealth, revealing how wealth 1 is the transferred enactment of global brutality. 250cm was an enactment by the Spanish artist Santiago Sierra that attempted to turn the abjection of economic devastation into a performance for the global north consumer. In 250cm Line Tattooed on 6 Paid People, six men enter the gallery space to be tattooed for 30 dollars each, or their expected daily income as migrant laborers. Kara Walker to Clifford Owens regarding “Anthology” “The Goddess Durga as Phoolan Devi” Maya Mackrandilal, 2015Ĭhallenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal, replicating them is not.
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