Conversations | Public Art: Imagining Just Worlds

Conversations | Public Art: Imagining Just Worlds
Art Basel in Basel 2021, September 24

During the past year of confinement and interactions that have taken place primarily via a screen, perhaps the only instances of assembly in the public space that we got to experience were all related to justice; a big blanket word to contain issues related to race, colonial practices, inequality, migration, restitution, and climate catastrophe. Public monuments have been questioned, as many of them were representations of the very things that people were mobilizing against. Thinking about public art, what should be its function going forward? What are the narratives that need to be represented in public space?#artbaselLiveArtists

Ahmet Öğüt and Julieta Aranda discuss with moderator and curator Defne Ayas. Artist Mariam Ghani does not appear on the recording.

The Art Basel 2021 Conversations program is curated by Art Basel and Julieta Aranda, Berlin-based artist and e-flux co-director.