Description
Book SynopsisDraws on thirty years of critical debates and practices by artists and activist groups to advocate the undermining of capitalism through art
Trade Review'Read this book and you will never see contemporary art the same way again.' -- Guerrilla Girls
'Sholette is representative of a new artist type that emerged after Conceptualism in that his work as a critic, theorist, and curator is central to his practice as an artist. He is one of the most cogent artist-theorists currently working in the domain of social practice art' -- Andrew Hemingway, Professor Emeritus of Art History, University College London
'Shifting between artistic practice, curating, writing, and activism Gregory Sholette has been surfing the waves of activist art for more than three decades' -- Gerald Raunig, philosopher and author of DIVIDUUM: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Part 1 (2016)
'A timely contribution to this ongoing global conversation between several generations of art activists around the ways in which their practice weaves between the contexts of art display, political campaigning and social movements' -- Frieze
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Is Another Art World Possible? - Lucy R. Lippard
Art on the Brink: Bare Art and the Crisis Of Liberal Democracy - Kim Charnley
Part I: Art World
Introduction I: Welcome to Our Art World
1. Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: Within and Beyond the Post-Cold War Art Museum
2. Let’s Do It Again Comrades, Let’s Occupy the Museum!
3. Bare Art, Debt, Oversupply, Panic! (On the Contradictions of a Twenty-First-Century Art Education)
Part II: Cities Without Souls
Introduction II: Naturalizing the Revanchist City
4. Nature as an Icon of Urban Resistance on NYC's Lower East Side, 1979–1984
5. Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen the Enemy and They Is Us
6. Occupology, Swarmology, Whateverology: The City of Disorder versus the People’s Archive
7. Art After Gentrification
Part III: Resistance
Introduction III: Critical Praxis/Partisan Art
8. Counting on Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice
9. Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere
10. On the Maidan Uprising and Imaginary Archive, Kiev
11. Delirium and Resistance After the Social Turn
Postscript: December 2016
Notes
Bibliography
Index
