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Episode 56 | Barbara Smith and Meg Onli

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

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The Problem of Appropriation in Art Practices

The charge around appropriation is that those in power take from those who have less power they take their cultural production and use it towards their own ends. I'm so interested in the ready-made and recontextualization and what does it mean to suddenly resee a work of of art or an object or a space through another lens or understanding the political implications, she says. "I want us to sort of dial it back a little bit to um to appropriation because it's often because we live in this this world that is structured by as Barbara said earlier racialized capitalism"

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