Situation

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-262-51305-0
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Whitechapel: Documents of Cont

Situation--a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and
ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations--has become a key
concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and
1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended these in the current
context of globalization. This anthology offers key writings on areas of art
practice and theory related to situation, including notions of the site specific,
the artist as ethnographer or fieldworker, the relation between action and public
space, the meaning of place and locality, and the crucial role of the curator in
recent situation specific art. In North America and Europe, the site-specific is
often viewed in terms of resistance to art's commoditization, while elsewhere
situation-specific practices have defied institutions of authority. The contributors
discuss these recent tendencies in the context of proliferating international
biennial exhibitions, curatorial place-bound projects, and strategies by which
artists increasingly unsettle the definition and legitimation of situation-based
art.Artists surveyed include [from Ian 1/30]Vito Acconci, Allora & Calzadilla,
Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Artist Placement Group, Michael Asher, Amy Balkin, Ursula
Biemann, Bik Van der Pol, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Janet Cardiff, Center for
Land Use Interpretation, Adam Chodzko, Collective Actions, Tacita Dean, Elmgreen
& Dragset, Andrea Fraser, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Liam Gillick, Renée Green,
Group Material, Douglas Huebler, Bethan Huws, Pierre Huyghe, Robert Irwin, Emily
Jacir, Ilya Kabakov, Leopold Kessler, Július Koller, Langlands & Bell, Ligna,
Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Graeme Miller, Jonathan Monk, Robert Morris,
Gabriel Orozco, Walid Ra'ad, Raqs Media Collective, Paul Rooney, Martha Rosler,
Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Serra, Situationist International, Tony Smith, Robert
Smithson, Vivan Sundaram, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread,
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Qiu Zhijie Writers include Arjun Appaduri, Marc Augé, Wim
Beeren, Josephine Berry Slater, Daniel Birnbaum, Ava Bromberg, Susan Buck-Morss,
Michel de Certeau, Douglas Crimp, Gilles Deleuze, T. J. Demos, Rosalyn Deutsche,
Thierry de Duve, Charles Esche, Graeme Evans, Patricia Falguières, Marina Fokidis,
Hal Foster, Hou Hanrou, Brian Holmes, Mary Jane Jacob, Vasif Kortun, Miwon Kwon, Lu
Jie, Doreen Massey, James Meyer, Ivo Mesquita, Brian O'Doherty, Craig Owens, Irit
Rogoff, Peter Weibel

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doherty, Claire

Fachgebiete

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Über Autor(innen)

Doherty, Claire
Claire Doherty is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of West
England, Bristol, where she established Situations (www.situations.org.uk), a
research and international commissioning program. She is Visiting Lecturer in
Curating at the Royal College of Art, London, and Curatorial Director of the One Day
Sculpture series, New Zealand. She is the editor of <I>Contemporary Art: From
Studio to Situation.</I>

Clare Doherty is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of
West England, Bristol, where she established Situations (www.situations.org.uk), a
research and international commissioning program. She is Visiting Lecturer in
Curating at the Royal College of Art, London, and Curatorial Director of the One Day
Sculpture series, New Zealand. She is the editor of Contemporary Art: From Studio to
Situation.