This section, sponsored by the ECPR Standing Group on Politics and the Arts, invites panels and papers on art as critical inquiry in a time of crisis and anxiety. The current era is dominated not only by economic and financial crises but also by increasingly routinised practices of violence and anti-liberal politics in a variety of national and international settings. In order to discuss these undesired trends, but also ways of overcoming them from the point of view of politics and the arts, we are interested in the particular contributions of art objects, artistic practices and political readings of art to political understanding and new political visions in this time of anxiety. We invite panels and papers revolving around artistic practices and interpretations of such practices - past and present - in connection with, but not limited to, violence and conflict, power and resistance, oppression and emancipation, globalization and digitization. We especially invite panels and papers with a focus on vulnerability, sensibility and imagination so as to explore what Jacques Rancière calls ‘new landscapes of the possible.’
