The Battleground of Art

Marco Baravalle’s The Battleground of Art examines how artists globally construct alter-institutions—autonomous, collectively-managed infrastructures that resist both state and market domination. Drawing on operaismo and decolonial theory, the work synthesizes two decades of radical curatorial practice to theorize artistic resistance through cooperation and solidarity. The book charts counter-hegemonic cultural production across the Global South and North, positioning art-making as a site of political struggle and institutional critique relevant to dark alternative intellectual discourse on autonomy, anti-capitalist organizing, and cultural resistance.

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