ABSTRACT
Whereas the types of aesthetic interventions in politics that are analysed in Chapter 5 are power-oriented by nature, this chapter deals with interventions that do not relate directly to concrete conflicts and power issues, but intervene in the established formations of meaning in more subtle, artistic ways. A variety of contemporary examples are analysed – again with a distinction between an artefact level and an atmospheric level. The examples have been selected on the basis of their respective potentials to generate critical public discourse by way of indeterminate aesthetic intervention in political issues. The examples do not claim to exhaust the field of such interventions, but they cover a broad variety of genres and types of approaches, and each of them has, by way of its specific aesthetic characteristics, gained considerable public attention and provoked debate.
