In his “Theses toward the Politicization of Art” Alexander Skidan applies the Brechtian concept of estrangement as a model of political art.
Estrangement, by destroying the aesthetic illusion, draws the recipient into the process of self-reflection and self-consciousness.
At the same time the very nature of art as such is questioned, suspended.
Estrangement, caesura, self-reflection, fragmentation, destabilization of the subject and dispersion of the narrative – these are the instruments, which work to provide us with the a-semantic gaps, folds of meaning, not yet appropriated by ideology.