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A Record of Fear
Project publication, documenting the series of temporary audio (and video) installations made for the site of Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast.
How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art: Writings on Aboriginal Contemporary Art
The first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal Art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art.
Part of Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Moochers, dreamers, wasters, vagabonds and doodlers
The art of sloth and reverie as oppositional (in)activities.
Worth The Trip
Commissioned by Newlyn Art Gallery to mark their extension and the opening of The Exchange Gallery in Penzance, in 2007. The book is the outcome of an extensive process of cataloging and extracting repeated words and phrases from the gallery visitors book from a three year period.
Relational Aesthetics
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
Visual Cultures as Seriousness
What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures?
Delirium and Resistance: Activist Art and the Crisis of Capitalism
In this follow-up to his influential 2010 book, Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Sholette engages in critical dialogue with artists’ collectives, counter-institutions, and activist groups to offer an insightful, firsthand account of the relationship between politics and art in neoliberal society.
Tell Them I Said No
This collection of essays considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms.
What’s the Use?: Constellations of Art, History and Knowledge - A Critical Reader
*currently unavailable*
Takes as a starting point the premise that art is best understood in dialogue with the social sphere, and examines how the exchange between art, knowledge and use has historically been set up and played out.
Catalogue - Venice International Performance Art Week 2014: Ritual Body - Political Body
Festival catalogue.
