The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.
Questions whether or not focusing on representations of cruelty makes us cruel. In a journey through high and low culture, the visual to the verbal, and the apolitical to the political, Nelson offers a model of how one might balance strong ethical convictions with an equally strong appreciation for work that tests the limits of taste, taboo and permissibility.
Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, Gordon produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts place her writing within the context of the artist-critics of her generation.
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Examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices. As these practices are implemented, other ways of seeing, understanding, and making appear.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
A collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read between January 2012 and December 2014. Selected through recommendations and an open call for submissions, Volume 4 reflects the dynamic, international contexts that Live Art and radical performance-based practices occupy.
An international survey that brings together 40 of the most influential approaches to art in public.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Collections of films made between 1978 and 1981 including “We Imitate”; “We Break Up” (1978), “The Broken Rule” (1979), and “Out of Hand” (1981), iconic and original works of the 'Pictures Generation'.
Performances, Manhattan 1970-1980
2012 exhibition catalogue with critical texts.
Published to coincide with exhibition, 2013
Documentation of more than 150 artists who participated in Performa 09.
Investigations of failure as a key concern—as theme, strategy, and world view—of recent art.
This item is referenced in the Making Routes Study Room Guide (P1964). This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
Move. Choreographing You, Art and Dance Since the 1960s, explores cross-currents between contemporary art and dance over the past fifty years, with essays by Susan Leigh Foster, Andre Lepecki, Peggy Phelan.
Move. Choreographing You, Art and Dance Since the 1960s, explores cross-currents between contemporary art and dance over the past fifty years, with essays by Susan Leigh Foster, Andre Lepecki, Peggy Phelan.