ABSTRACT
In this exchange (first published in 2010 and supplemented in 2017), Victor Burgin and Hilde Van Gelder investigate one of the basic premises underlying Burgin’s oeuvre: that artistic representations should at all times acknowledge the socio-economic conditions of their own production. Only then can the work of art develop a reflective stance vis-à-vis the spectator, through which the artwork’s politically allegorical potential can fully come into play. The example of Burgin’s projection work Occasio (2014) here serves as a new case study.
