Aesthetics of systems / Systems of aesthetics

摘要

This paper investigates the role artists play in maintaining their legitimacy throughudparticipating in various roles across the entire art world by tracing the careers ofudselected artists with expanded practices. Where actions are performed on behalf ofudartists, artists lose the ability to represent themselves and even participate in their own disenfranchisement. Systems and systems aesthetics are first explored beforeudthe art world itself is revealed as a system. The positions that artists take up in the system is explored through the careers of various artists, including those that work as curators, writers and gallerists, challenging the hegemony that threatens to manipulate the system and remove the independence of the art object.