Art and Politics

The relationship between art and politics is one of the most enduring, and contested, domains of human experience and expression. How do we represent, or give form to, the patterns of collective life, and what do those shared realities do to the practice of creating art? Some insist that one should take a side in political struggle, while others claim that art is unique in existing in a realm beyond. However, art and politics both draw, sometimes beautifully, sometimes painfully, sometimes absurdly, on a shared root of human experience, on the material of life. Site:Brooklyn invites submissions from across all mediums that explore the connection between artistic creation and political life.