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How art allows for confrontation, exploration, and systematic problem solving.

In Defense of Useful Art | Broadcast In Defense of Useful Art How art allows for confrontation, exploration, and systematic problem solving. essay Feminist Data Set workshops from z2x festival, 2019. BY Caroline Sinders 06.29.20 Can artwork be useful, can it be productive, and can it be a work of activism? We can look to Tania Bruguera’s project, Arte Útil, which explores artwork that is wholly utilitarian, or the critical design theory of Fiona Raby and Anthony Dunn, which imagines product design separated from capitalism. Both of these theories challenge that artwork can be productive, as we

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