Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated.
Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated.
While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the question “what is art ,” a key question for many artists and thinkers in the twenty-first century has become “where is art?” Contributors explore the challenge of meaningfully identifying and evaluating works located across multiple versions and locations in space and time. In doing so, they also seek to find appropriate language and criteria for evaluating forms of art that often straddle other realms of knowledge and activity.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, art criticism, and philosophy of art.
Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated.
1. Introduction
Simone Douglas, Adam Geczy, and Sean Lowry
2. Where is Art?
Sean Lowry and Adam Geczy
3. Performance, Art, and the Relational Self
Amelia Jones
4. Chronotopograpical Nodes and Moments of Encounter
Sreshta Rit Premnath
5. Evidence
Sharmistha Ray
6. Ice Boat: Field Notes (in Advance of a Melt)
Simone Douglas
7. Bland Matter: New Materialism, and Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Adam Geczy
8. Bandness
Sean Lowry and Ilmar Taimre
9. Glittereiki
Genevieve Hyacinthe
10. Beirut Lab: 1975 (2020): Or: again, rubbed smooth, a moment in
time__caesura
Juli Carson
11. IrDaEdNiTcIaTlY
Jeffrey Strayer
12. Would the Real Tusk Please Stand Up?
Rosanna Raymond
13. Handiwork of Migrancy, Restitutions in the Contemporary
Patrick Flores
14. Erasure or Erased: An Artworld (AND WORLD) Adrift
Brad Buckley
15. All the Worlds Futures
Orianna Cacchione and Jessica Hong
16. Appendix: Project Anywhere
Sean Lowry and Simone Douglas
Simone Douglas is a Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NY, NY where she directed the MFA Fine Arts program from 2009 to 2019.
Adam Geczy teaches at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.
Sean Lowry is Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies and Associate Director (Research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
