Steffen Zillig: Ästhetik des Asozialen

An event organised by the Art Theory

Steffen Zillig talks about the ambivalent relationship between the play of autonomy and the reality of the lower class – and the creeping repression of both from contemporary art. In his essay-style study Aesthetics of the Asocial, the artist and author presents an essay-style study at the intersection of art history, philosophy and sociology that traces aesthetic traces of the lower class in a contemporary art that is still largely influenced by the bourgeoisie. His book is a critical contribution to the burgeoning debate on class and ‘classism’.