ABSTRACT
Egalitarian politics is about ‘the symbolic institution of the political in the form of the power of those who are not entitled to exercize power – a rupture in the order of legitimacy and domination. Artistic and political interventions are interruptions in the senses – in the aesthetic register – with a view to make sensible what is non-sense, what is only registered as noise. For Jacques Ranciere, artistic practices, like political interruptions, are an integral part of the partition of the perceptible to the extent that they suspend the common sense of sensory experience and reframe the relationships between subjects and objects, the common and the singular, one place and another. The violence of urban insurrection and interruption is subjective; the result of a voluntarist decision to act, to stage the new, the different and, in the process, make visible the objective violence inscribed in, and often actively mobilized by, the instituted bio-political police order.
