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The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline
Sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum.
From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art
A study of installation art, from its marginalized beginnings in the late 1950s to its central position in today’s art world.
Wheels on Fire
Video. Commissioned by the Science Museum and Apples and Snakes as part of the Faltered States show. Performed at the Science Museum on 21 March 2003 and at Battersea Arts Centre on 28 March 2003.Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
Take a romp through the last two thousand years of Western Art and find out the real who, what, when, and why of art history.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Empty Stages, Crowded Flats: Performativity as Curatorial Strategy
Investigates an array of staged situations, from choreographed exhibitions, immaterial museums, theatres of negotiation, and discursive marathons, to street carnivals and subversive public-art projects, and asks how ‘theatre-like’ strategies and techniques can in fact enable ‘reality making’ situations in art, and how, as a consequence, curating itself becomes staged, dramatised, choreographed, and composed.
The Best is Not Too Good for You: New Approaches to Public Collections in England
Explores the role of philanthropy in public collections across the UK.
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.
Confronting the Institution in Performance: Liberate Tate’s Hidden Figures
Weaves together the various voices for the art collective to offer readers both an analysis and an experience of the group’s performance: the inner voice of the performance; the critical voice of the witness; and the frustrating redactions reflecting Tate and BP’s hidden contracts.
What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
Examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban planning, and new media.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice
This collection of essays sheds new light on the political, ethical and aesthetic potential of participatory artworks and tests the very latest theoretical approaches to this subject.
