Definitions
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- verb To remove the centre from.
- verb optics To place away from the centre; to make
eccentric . - verb To
displace from thecentre .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this way, decentre, presents itself as inclusionary rather than imposing.
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The real question for decentre is whether the circumstances and interests that determine what art is, and for whom it is made and shown, are still contested and publicly debated, or whether they have been replaced by the pragmatics of how to excel within existing terms.
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Non-hierarchical, anti-authoritarian aspirations don't appear to be a serious concern for artist-run culture in decentre.
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The book's title evokes an orientation towards centralized power, while attempting to destabilize the very categories of centre and periphery in favour of infiltration and implicatedness, forgetting that corporations and neoliberal states are similarly decentred; thus decentre is closer to reproducing a logic than challenging it, and relies overly on the critical potential of a vague poststructural politics at a time when this theory is losing relevance.
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The editors of decentre make a concerted effort to explore artist-run centres (ARCs) in their current form, inviting artists and organizers to reflect on where "the real strength of artist-run culture" lies and whether the concept of ARCs has in fact "outlived its usefulness."
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But it does so because they are endemic, and with the exception of a few astute contributions, it fails to assess the consequences of this reorientation and propose a way forward. decentre is comprised of short contributions that draw primarily on writers 'personal experiences with particular ARCs rather than theoretical or historical analysis.
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Aside from Clive Robertson and a few others, this seems against the grain of decentre.
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TRY to decentre yourself and put your mother first at all costs, otherwise what will seem like a scripted drama could easily turn into an unscripted, unreviewed, unwatched hellish nightmare.
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The editors understandably see this as underscoring artist-run culture; however, the inclusion of Abbing is unusual because the prescription of his book, not mentioned in decentre, is to end all public funding.
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Is this unmentioned conclusion decentre's guilty conscience and / or fatalism? decentre can sometimes feel like a blog, despite its austere, elemental design.
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