I can't work like this
Subtitle: a reader on recent boycotts and contemporary art
By: edited by Joanna Warsza ; associate editors from the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Ágnes Básthy [and twelve others]
Contributors: Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783956792502
Subjects: Artists and museums; Artists and art museum curators; Curatorship; Boycotts; Artists; Political and social views
Description: In recent years, artists and curators have often been confronted with the political dilemma of engagement or disengagement. The ideological, economic, or ethically objectionable circumstances of certain biennials and art exhibitions have raised the question of whether to continue and, if so, under what circumstances, with what consequences, and to what ends? From 2013 to 2015, biennials in Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Sydney, and São Paulo demonstrated that curating and art production can't just carry on as if nothing had happened. This reader is the result of Joanna Warsza's course at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in 2015. It examines four recent cases of boycotts, presenting their political, ideological, and economic contexts, timelines, statements, as well as interviews with parties involved. It reflects on how certain biennials became the place where the power of art is renegotiated and why one simply "can't work like this."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.