Curator and theoretician Nina Möntmann presents a collection of essays and conversations addressing the blurry demarcation between ethical and “unethical” art, modes of cynicism, and the role of ethics in the western market as it relates to both artistic and curatorial practices. Examining through a historical lens the evolution of arts ethical responsibility in response to changes in the global socio-political climate.

All signs in Scandalous point towards an impending crossroads, a point when artists will be forced to seriously evaluate their role in the developing ethical dialogue; choose sides so to speak. Certain postmodern attitudes, namely towards the “production of a knowing irony”, and a growing cynicism have made it easier to abstain from such decisions. Are artists and curators ready to implicate themselves in the process of cultivating a more expansive ethical influence/accept the potentially grisly consequences of exhibiting “unethical” art?