ABSTRACT The visual art of the last decades privileges, explicitly or implicitly, social rather than art historical or aesthetic issues. In sites ranging from university classrooms and journals to museums and biennials, the emphasis is usually put on how effectively art handles the social issues of the day while questions of aesthetic value are often treated as suspicious and ideological. Given this anti-art character in these contexts of mediation, the insistence to perceive the objects as artistic objects constitutes a paradox that has been rarely discussed in sociological terms. This article draws on ethnographic research in order to explore “biennial art” that is to say the art that displayed in contemporary art and international platforms of showcasing. These platforms struggle to maintain a concept of art as social practice while at the same time nurture an exclusive and highbrow environment in which “artfulness” is key. I call this quality artfulness so as to both underline its artificiality as well as the inventiveness and skills required for its production. Artfulness in these sites is enabled through various formal or informal rituals of valorization, including guided tours, curatorial statements, media promoting activities and artist talks. These rituals, positioning certain objects within the sphere of art and producing them as objects meriting aesthetic interpretation, resemble the politics of publicity found in aesthetic capitalism at large.

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每两年举行一次的艺术及其仪式：价值，政治经济学和技巧

摘要过去几十年的视觉艺术赋予社会（而不是艺术）历史或美学问题显式或隐式的特权。在从大学教室和杂志到博物馆和双年展的众多场所中，通常着重强调艺术如何有效地处理当今的社会问题，而审美价值问题通常被视为可疑和意识形态问题。在这种调解的背景下，鉴于这种反艺术的特征，坚持将这些物体视为艺术物体构成了一种悖论，这种悖论在社会学上很少被讨论。本文利用人种学研究来探索“两年期艺术”，即在当代艺术和国际展示平台上展示的艺术。这些平台努力维持一种作为社会实践的艺术观念，同时又培育了一种以“技巧”为关键的独特而高尚的环境。我称其为高品质的技巧，以强调其人为性以及其生产所需的发明性和技能。通过各种正式或非正式的增值礼节，包括导游，策展陈述，媒体宣传活动和艺术家演讲，可以使这些场所变得机灵。这些仪式将某些对象放置在艺术领域之内，并将其作为具有审美解释意义的对象而产生，类似于整个审美资本主义中的宣传政治。我称其为高品质的技巧，以强调其人为性以及其生产所需的发明性和技能。通过各种正式或非正式的增值礼节，包括导游，策展陈述，媒体宣传活动和艺术家演讲，可以使这些场所变得机灵。这些仪式将某些对象放置在艺术领域之内，并将其作为具有审美解释意义的对象而产生，类似于整个审美资本主义中的宣传政治。我称其为高品质的技巧，以强调其人为性以及其生产所需的发明性和技能。通过各种正式或非正式的增值礼节，包括导游，策展陈述，媒体宣传活动和艺术家演讲，可以使这些场所变得机灵。这些仪式将某些对象放置在艺术领域之内，并将其作为具有审美解释意义的对象而产生，类似于整个审美资本主义中的宣传政治。