TY - JOUR

T1 - Fictions of the Possible

T2 - Art, the City and Public Entrepreneurship

AU - Beyes, Timon

PY - 2015/10/27

Y1 - 2015/10/27

N2 - If the study of public entrepreneurship is directed at processes of social transformation, then it invariably encounters the manifold experiments of contemporary art and their socio-political effects. This short paper seeks to throw this encounter into sharper relief. After contextualizing the relation of art and social transformation, an example of a recent artistic intervention is presented. In conclusion, it is argued that art’s paradoxical potential to identify and disidentify with forms of life offers fictions of the possible: ambiguous, performative and preliminary reorderings of what can be perceived, expressed and done.

AB - If the study of public entrepreneurship is directed at processes of social transformation, then it invariably encounters the manifold experiments of contemporary art and their socio-political effects. This short paper seeks to throw this encounter into sharper relief. After contextualizing the relation of art and social transformation, an example of a recent artistic intervention is presented. In conclusion, it is argued that art’s paradoxical potential to identify and disidentify with forms of life offers fictions of the possible: ambiguous, performative and preliminary reorderings of what can be perceived, expressed and done.

KW - Digital media

KW - aesthetics

KW - art

KW - International Institute of Political Murder

KW - public entrepreneurship

KW - Rancière

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84940030071&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1056492615579792

DO - 10.1177/1056492615579792

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 24

SP - 445

EP - 449

JO - Journal of Management Inquiry

JF - Journal of Management Inquiry

SN - 1056-4926

IS - 4

ER -