I Want to Go to the Future Please
Subtitle: Jenny Holzer and the End of a Century
Contributors: Buchloh, Benjamin H.D.; Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa; Lambert-Beatty, Carrie
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: The task of this dissertation is to assess the historical conditions that permitted Jenny Holzer to formulate a practice premised on language and conceptions of public space to break from historical avant-garde and neo-avant-garde practices. My aim is to demonstrate the recourses sought by Holzer--through language, collaboration, and form--to reveal the operations of repression at work in the public spaces of place and language in particular moments of crises at the end of a--and at the ruined start of a new--century: the economic collapse of the late 1970s, the AIDs crisis, and the wars on terror following the events of September 11, 2001.
Notes: Keywords: AIDS, Contemporary Art, Holzer, Language, New York, Public Art.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013