Art and Politics: A Proposal for Correction*

Carin Kuoni (M.A. University of Zurich; B.A. Sorbonne) is a curator, writer, and arts administrator whose work examines how contemporary artistic practices reflect and inform social, political, and cultural conditions. She is the Senior Director and Chief Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the university. From 1998 to 2003, she was director of exhibitions at Independent Curators International (ICI) and, from 1992 to 1997, director of The Swiss Institute.

Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! an opera in three acts, VLC Forum Correction*, photo Argenis Apolinario, courtesy VLC.

Correction* will build on core principles that also shape the programs of the Vera List Center—interdisciplinarity; questions of diverse epistemology; creative and aesthetic practices as forms of political empowerment; and the archive as a living repository of actionable knowledge and experiences. The intent is to use thirty years of activities of the VLC as source material for adjustments, improvements, and correction for future action, a sort of call for mobilization, activation, and education.