Title: The contemporary, the common : art in a globalizing world /
Authors: Pontbriand, Chantal.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Globalization in art.; Time in art.; Conceptual art; Art Philosophy; Kunst; Globalisierung; Concept-art.
Abstract: "The essays in this collection were written in the first decade of the new millennium by the critic, editor, and curator Chantal Pontbriand. Pontbriand 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. Contemporaneity functions as a flow, a space-time being that cannot be fixated. The body is in the forefront--a thermometer of the world lived in and with, marked by dynamics of change and sharing. The work of Claire Fontaine, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Ion Grigorescu, Carsten Hö̈ller, Mike Kelley, Sigalit Landau, Rabih Mroué́, Yvonne Rainer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Jeff Wall, among other artists, is examined in this book, together with Pontbriand's insights into the seminal issues stirring the field of contemporary art." -- Publisher's description.
Contents: Introduction -- The idea of community. Understanding the idea of community -- Jean-Luc Nancy - Chantal Pontbriand: an exchange -- Anri Sala: one era dissolves into another -- Claire Fontaine, after Giorgio Agamben -- Massimo Guerrera: a politically sensitive view of design -- Yvonne Rainer: courageous shifts, from self to community -- From utopia to the commonplace -- The laboratory effect of 9 evenings -- This way: polis, ethos, esthesis -- Beyond work -- Dora García: what makes a real artist -- Globalization: the common and the singular at large. The tectonic plates of the art world -- Istanbul: a biennial speaks to the world -- Mike Kelley: dance, monuments, religion -- Magna carta: mapping moments in 2007 -- Rirkrit Tiravanija: modes of utopia -- Rabih Mroué: language, performativity, violence -- On disquiet: violence and images -- War with images: a response to Judith Butler -- Sigalit Landau: building a different world, an aesthetics of fluidity -- Ion Grigorescu: performing history in suspended spaces -- The DNA (no) recipe: for Yael Bartana -- Expanded consciousness: art beyond borders. Expanded dance: a turning point -- Notes on sound and the usage of art -- Björk's autofiction -- João Fiadeiro: I am here -- Michel François: the liberated eye -- The relational image -- Performance and photography -- The exploding documentary -- Video chaosmos -- Gordon, Parreno, Zidane: Dewey in times of chaosmos -- Carsten Höller: vertigo as the Kairos -- Johan Creten: open and dissolute, the mobile border -- Rabih Mouré: back to back -- Judgment, democracy: making art, producing acts.