Articles by: Christian Caiconte

Author Biography:

Christian Caiconte teaches political economy at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a PhD on the social and cultural constitution of Korea’s developmental era (1960s–1980s). His research currently focuses on new forms of labour and subjectivity in East Asia, with a particular focus on Korea.

Brighter Than Ten Thousand Suns?

Artists may aspire to create autonomous subjectivities, but they do so within determined social contexts. The more ambitious an entire exhibition is to escape such determinants, the more we need to ask, without fear or favour, whether the works within have not been wholly drawn back in.

Rubbing/Loving: Do Ho Suh at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Suh invite us to rethink the relationship between structure and agency, and in a novel way that neither romanticises the disadvantaged position of the subjects of capitalism nor absolutises the structure that these same subjects have constituted.