Abstract
In this article, I am exploring the ways in which contemporary art can produce community. By community I mean not a belonging to a specific group, but the political-philosophical concept of communitas as an open, unstructured, and egalitarian bonding; a rupturing with established hierarchies and an opening up of new possibilities and interactions in common solidarity. I want to investigate into the conditions if and how art can initiate political change by affectively moving us towards communitas as a utopian project – instead of leading to passive partaking and political disengagement. In order to answer this question I will consider the example of an exhibition called Producing Futures – An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms shown in early 2019 in the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Switzerland.
Seiler, Nina