Fourth Provocation: Art is Entertainment

Art makes itself irrelevant declaring that anything can be elevated to art by the mere choice of the artist. Have things gone too far; should we have stopped at Duchamp? Does art undermine any political or social potential by offering the public objects, actions, scenarios that may shock, amuse and mystify, but elevate itself no further than entertainment?

Provocations is a free series of discussions about art and its function and place in today’s society. They are intended to stimulate ideas, opinions, exchanges and connections between artists practicing in Newcastle and the North East and those who are interested in questions about what art is for, is it capable of being a force for change or has its potential been fatally limited by a dominant neo-liberal market economy