Reading/feeling

Reading/feeling
Author: Tanja Baudoin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Affect (Psychology)
ISBN: 9789081447102

"This publication centres around the notion of affect, a term that delineates a field where the personal and the political meet through sensory movements between bodies. Affect, as a pre-emotional experience, constitutes the social and economic relationships that comprise society. Here its meaning is considered in theory and artistic practice, with a selection of texts used in the reading groups for 'If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution', part of the programme 'Edition IV - Affect' (2010-2012). It also includes three new essays, short statements by reading group members, and artist pages"--P. [4] of cover.

Art and the F Word

Art and the F Word
Author: What, How & for Whom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783956790744

From 2012 to 2014 a series of contemporary art exhibitions, events, and participatory forums organized by Galerija Nova, Tensta konsthall, and Grazer Kunstverein comprised the project "Beginning as Well as We Can (How Do We Talk about Fascism?)." Focusing on the startling increase of nationalism across Europe--made palpable in manifestations of fascist tendencies and the cult of heritage--the project points to the possibility and power of art to imagine futures that are not irrevocably determined by the present, but are invested with struggles fought here and now. Art and the F Word: Reflections on the Browning of Europe, edited by curator Maria Lind and the collective What, How & for Whom/WHW, continues the debate with contributions by cultural critics, curators, and artists, which articulate resistant and constructive possibilities of social and artistic production--investigating the language of politics and philosophy and also popular vocabularies, social contexts, media, science, and aesthetics. The exhibitions featured here, which form an essential part of the overall project, test the potential of aesthetic experience to question reality and upset the ideological complacency and political resignation that lead to a loss of control over the direction of social transformation. Copublished with Tensta konsthall and What, How & for Whom/WHW Contributors Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Petra Bauer & Sofia Wiberg, Barnabás Bencsik, Boris Buden, Maria Lind and Tensta konsthall, Jelena Vesic, What, How & for Whom/WHW

Moscow Symposium

Moscow Symposium
Author: Boris Groys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN: 9783943365115

Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of life--not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. Could it be that the Moscow Conceptualists were so elusive or saturated with the particularities of life in a specific economic and intellectual culture that they precluded integration into a broader art historical narrative? If so, then their simultaneously modest and radical approach to form may present a key to understanding the resilience and flexibility of a more general sphere of global conceptualisms that anticipate, surpass, or even bend around their purported origins in canonical European and American regimes of representation, as well as what we currently understand to be the horizon of artistic practice. e-flux journal Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle Contributors Claire Bishop, Keti Chukhrov, Ekaterina Degot, Jörg Heiser, Terry Smith, Anton Vidokle, and Sarah Wilson

Ghosts in the Machine

Ghosts in the Machine
Author: Massimiliano Gioni
Publisher: Skira
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art and science
ISBN: 9780847839483

This title explores the relationship between art and machines, presenting a trans-historical reassessment of optical, kinetic, and technological art. It brings together a wide range of work from - amongst others - Bridget Riley, Hans Haacke, Gianni Colombo, Channa Horowitz, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Victor Vasarely.

Women War Artists

Women War Artists
Author: Kathleen Palmer
Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2011
Genre: Art, British
ISBN: 9781854379894

From women's representations of the "Blitz" and the liberation of Belsen to contemporary icons like Rachel Whiteread's Holocaust Monument in Vienna, this book explores the contribution made by women artists to our understanding of war.

Return to the Postcolony

Return to the Postcolony
Author: T. J. Demos
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-04-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3943365425

In the wake of failed states, growing economic and political inequality, and the ongoing US- and NATO-led wars for resources, security, and economic dominance worldwide, contemporary artists are revisiting former European colonies, considering past injustices as they haunt the living yet remain repressed in European consciousness. With great timeliness, projects by Sven Augustijnen, Vincent Meessen, Zarina Bhimji, Renzo Martens, and Pieter Hugo have emerged during the fiftieth anniversary of independence for many African countries, inspiring a kind of “reverse migration”—a return to the postcolony, which drives an ethico-political as well as aesthetic set of imperatives: to learn to live with ghosts, and to do so more justly.

The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms

The Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms
Author: Simon Wilson
Publisher: Tate
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"How many times have you read the caption next to a work of art or a review of a contemporary art exhibition and found yourself none the wiser? For many, the language in which modern art is described can be as mystifying as the art itself. This comprehensive, pocket-sized guide holds the answers. Each term, from the dawn of Impressionism to the latest digital development, is defined with clarity and precision, putting themes, movements, media and art practices at the reader's fingertips."--BOOK JACKET.

No is Not an Answer

No is Not an Answer
Author: Silvia Eiblmayr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781934105061

No Is Not an Answer is the largest presentation of Marie-Louise Ekman's art ever featured in the form of a book. As one of the most influential artists in Sweden in the postwar period, Ekman was both part of Swedish pop and the rebellious underground in the '60s and '70s. She created a unique body of proto-feminist work, which draws equally from the playful imagination of a young woman and popular culture in the social welfare state. She has directed more than a dozen films, TV series, and plays, and since 2009 she has been the director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. The result of a collaboration between Tensta konsthall and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and an offshoot of the exhibition "Doing what you want: Marie-Louise Ekman accompanied by Sister Corita Kent, Mladen Stilinovic and Martha Wilson," the publication aims to show the contemporary aspect of Ekman's works and to examine the wider international context surrounding the start of her career.