At the beginning of each year, the vestals of the Austrian temple of Conceptual art, the Generali Foundation, surrender their austere chambers for the sake of experiment: an exhibition straight from the artists’ laboratory. For 2002, Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, artist-writers specializing in the political dimension of art, organized a show on the theme of artistic work and militancy: “Die Gewalt ist der Rand aller Dinge” (Violence is at the margin of all things). Three questions assert themselves: How do artists treat the theme of militancy within their own system? What can aesthetic