What do we mean when we say that something is contemporary? And what should the designator contemporary art refer to? What constitutes the present present or the contemporary contemporary? Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art, the first book in the Contemporary Condition series, introduces key issues concerning contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present and calls for a deep rethinking of the structures of temporalization.

The Contemporary Condition: Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art

Arts & Photography

Lund, Jacob

Cox, Geoff

History & Criticism

Sternber Pr

An argument for "the contemporary contemporary" as the point of departure for any anachronic relationship with time today.Taking its point of departure in an "anachronic" exhibition, Soul vements (2016-18), this book is a theoretical exploration of how the notion of contemporaneity--understood as the coming together of different times in the same historical present--relates to the end of a certain history of art. Critical of hitherto dominant chronological, ahistorical, and/or culturally restricted notions of the contemporary, Lund's overall aim is to make an argument for "the contemporary contemporary" as the point of departure for any anachronic relationship with time today, and as the inescapable point of departure for any possible historical imagination.

Anachrony, Contemporaneity, and Historical Imagination (The Contemporary Condition)

Sternberg Pr

How our experience of presence, time, and history is articulated in contemporary artistic practices. Our present is defined by contemporaneity- the interconnection of heterogeneous times, histories, and temporalities. These many and various times do not merely exist in parallel with one another, simultaneously. Rather, they interconnect and are brought to bear on the same present, forming a sort of planetary present, and-at least in principle-a global sharing of time, although one not shared equally. In The Changing Constitution of the Present- Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity, Jacob Lund explores how the conditions for politically engaged art and aesthetic practice, for questioning the present, have changed in recent decades, while considering how our historical present and its temporal quality differ significantly from previous presents.

The Changing Constitution of the Present: Essays on the Work of Art in Times of Contemporaneity

Sternberg Press

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