Mauri and Survivance: A roundtable on art and risk

Abstract

"As one of the most likely signatories to a defined concept of risk in recent academic work, Ulrich Beck, notes: "It is easy to understand the subtlety of the sociological category ..." As an index of our toleration of change and uncertainty, who or what we might take to constitute a risk could reveal our own interests and investments before anything else. The call for papers for this issue of 'Reading Room' suggested various senses of the term, in part to re-question art's relation to urgent wider realities."