International in scope, bringing together over forty of the most important voices in the field, including Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, David Joselit, Michelle Kuo, Raqs Media Collective, and Jan Verwoert
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Table of Contents
Contributors ix
INTRODUCTION 1
Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson
1 THE CONTEMPORARY AND GLOBALIZATION 5
Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials 7
Tim Griffin
“Our” Contemporaneity? 17
Terry Smith
The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now! 28
Jean-Philippe Antoine
2 ART AFTER MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM 37
Elite Art in an Age of Populism 39
Julian Stallabrass
“Of Adversity we Live!” 50
Monica Amor
Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary
Art in China 60
Pauline J. Yao
3 FORMALISM 70
Form Struggles 72
Jan Verwoert
Formalism Redefined 84
Anne Ellegood
The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global 95
Joan Kee
4 MEDIUM SPECIFICITY 105
The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art 107
Sabeth Buchmann
Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form 117
Irene V. Small
Specificity 126
Richard Shiff
5 ART AND TECHNOLOGY 137
Test Sites: Fabrication 139
Michelle Kuo
Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention 149
Ina Blom
Conceptual Art 2.0 159
David Joselit
6 BIENNIALS 169
In Defense of Biennials 171
Massimiliano Gioni
Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds 178
Geeta Kapur
Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience 192
Caroline A. Jones
7 PARTICIPATION 202
Participation 204
Liam Gillick and Maria Lind
The Ripple Effect: “Participation” as an Expanded Field 214
Johanna Burton
Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art 224
Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
8 ACTIVISM 232
Activism 234
Andrea Giunta
Knit Dissent 245
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Light from a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, and Politics 254
Raqs Media Collective
9 AGENCY 265
Participation in Art: 10 Theses 267
Juliane Rebentisch
Fusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in
Order of Preference 277
Tirdad Zolghadr
Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life 287
T. J. Demos
10 THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM 298
Monotheism à la Mode 300
Sven Lütticken
Freedom’s Just Another Word 311
Terri Weissman
On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art 322
Atteqa Ali
11 JUDGMENT 331
Judgment’s Troubled Objects 333
João Ribas
A Producer’s Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go 346
Frank Smigiel
After Criticism 357
Lane Relyea
12 MARKETS 367
Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market 369
Olav Velthuis
Three Perspectives on the Market 379
Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen
Untitled 388
Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
13 ART SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY 406
Lifelong Learning 408
Katy Siegel
Art without Institutions 420
Anton Vidokle
Will the Academy Become a Monster? 429
Pi Li
14 SCHOLARSHIP 436
Our Literal Speed 438
Our Literal Speed
Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference 447
Chika Okeke-Agulu
The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art 457
Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Index 467
