... repetitiveand at the same time futile gesture of the avant-garde again and again, always producingperipheral and anarchic blind spots, signs of lowvisibility against the domination of historizedand ... on the basis of changing cultural conventions andarrangements.15 For Groys the essentialcharacter of the avant-garde is that it is a democratic art. But, paradoxically, it is notpopular ... spectator andpublic means to avoid the allure and primacy of the object, which results, almost automatically,in an aesthetics of the work, the monopoly of the artist, and the art system as we...