Show TimeAvailable for the first time in paperback, this is a revised and updated edition of Jens Hoffmann's survey of groundbreaking exhibitions since 1989 and explores the radical shifts that have taken place in the practice of curating contemporary art over the last 25 years. Nine thematic sections focus on a huge variety of exhibitions - 53 in total - including those that have explored public space

Show Time The Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art (Paperback) /anglais

Jens Hoffmann

Arts & Photography

Thames&Hudson

A unique exhibition in a book, presenting challenging art that addresses the place and function of performance in the contemporary world.Art Works: An exciting new series celebrating the vitality and diversity of art in the twenty-first century. If all the world is a stage, then each of us is a performer. Every day, we act out individual roles and take part in private and collective rituals handed down by society. In our relationships with others, we hide behind masks and assumed personae; and when we interact with the objects, spaces, and environments around us, we follow established patterns of behavior set down by history and convention, playing out performances everywhere we turn. In such a world, it is no surprise that the line between art and life is sometimes blurred. Arranged into themed "rooms," this book reflects a wide variety of artistic attitudes and practices. Some artists present collaborators as the living, performing objects of their work, while others turn the audience into the main protagonists in the creative process. Some artists transform themselves through disguise or by altering their surroundings in order to perform a new reality, while others make everyday items into art by changing their function or context. Some artists explore the storytelling capacity of art, but others present only cryptic fragments that leave the viewer to complete the narrative. Where some question the permanence of art by producing ephemeral or short-lived pieces, others leave traces of their actions, and yet others seek to freeze time in highly dramatized tableaux or hyperrealistic sculptures. For some artists, performance offers the possibility of leaving the gallery environment altogether and enacting art in public, on the street, for everybody. All of the artists in this book use art to puzzle out the complicated ways in which performance plays a part in our daily experiences. All of them help us understand the world in which we live. 280 illustrations, 232 in color.

Art Works: Perform

Joan Jonas

Reference

Edited by Paul O'Neill, this sleek and serious anthology of new curatorial writing edited features contributions from leading international curators, artists and critics including Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen &amp; Lars Bang Larsen, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech &amp; Mark Hutchinson, Irene Calderoni, Anshuman Das Gupta &amp; Grant Watson, Clémentine Deliss, Eva Diaz, Claire Doherty, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffmann, Robert Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sarah Pierce, Simon Sheikh, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Andrew Wilson and Mick Wilson. Put together by the curator-critic Paul O'Neill, Curating Subjects, documents the inter-dependent relationships between the curatorial past, present and speculative futures and, instead of following the convention of curators writing about themselves, invites the authors to provide a text about the curatorial work of others. The result is an eclectic volume of accessible responses that provides a pluralistic and dynamic curatorial discourse where critical essays, theoretical explorations, propositions, historical overviews, interviews, exhibition critiques and fictional accounts sit side by side. Essential reading for students and professionals alike.

Curating Subjects

Irene Calderoni

Robert Nickas

Liam Gillick

Clémentine Deliss

Carlos Basualdo

Julie Ault

Lars Bang Larsen

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

History & Criticism

Open Editions/Occasional Table

Arte Total: 40 Years Galeria Luisa Strina

Galeria Luisa Strina

This contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement, launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke, grew out of a symposium held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It looks at Institutional Critique's central aim, the exposure and ironization of the structures and logic of museums and art galleries, and recent developments that engage with and echo it. IC has been raised again by Andrea Fraser, Renee Green and Fred Wilson, among others, and has been vigorously reoriented in recent years to address issues such as globalization. Contributors include Alexander Alberro, Mike Kelley, Hans Haacke, Lauri Firstenberg, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green and others.

Institutional Critique and After (SoCCAS Symposia vol. 2)

Isabelle Graw

Hans Haacke

John Searle

Andrea Fraser

Renee Green

Monica Bonvicini

Mike Kelley

The Yes Men

JRP|Ringier

Manifesta Journal Vol 4, 5, 6

Barbara Steiner

Richard Wood

Robert Fleck

Michele Robecchi

Natasa Petresin

Francesco Manacorda

Rafal Niemojewski

SILVANA

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