The aesthetics of risk
By: edited by John C. Welchman.
Contributors: Welchman, John C.; Southern California Consortium of Art Schools.
Series: SoCCAS (Southern California Consortium of Art Schools) symposia -- v. 3.; SoCCAS symposia -- v. 3.
Publisher: JRP/Ringier; D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Zürich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9783905770551
Subjects: Institutional Critique (Art movement) -- Congresses; Arts and society -- Congresses; Art and society -- Congresses; Art -- Political aspects -- Congresses; Risk -- Sociological aspects
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Proceedings of a symposium held on April 29, 2006, in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium, The Getty Center, Los Angeles.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Living with risk: chance, luck, and the creation of meaning in uncertainty / Gerda Reith; title: Annihilating the logic of risk: Israel's military occupation and the ascendancy of Hamas / Neve Gordon and Dani Filc; title: The risk of coming together: Ronald Tavel's screenplays for Andy Warhol's films / Douglas Crimp; title: Keiko Sei in conversation with Chris Hill; title: Catharsis, violence, and the alienated self: performance art in Britain, 1962-1988 / Chrissie Iles; title: Aestheticizing risk in wartime: the SLA to Iraq / Jane Blocker; title: Pull the trigger: risking bodies in recent art from Mexico City / Gabriela Jauregui; title: To risk not naming / Richard Shiff; title: Bodies in peril: enacting censorship in early Brazilian video art (1974-1978) / Elena Shtromberg; title: Brock Enright in conversation with Andrew Bulger; title: Catherine Opie in conversation with Douglas Crimp; title: Risks between: trauma and studio, tape and world: Paul McCarthy in conversation with John C. Welchman; title: Reckless behavior / Glenn Phillips; title: Not so quiet on the Western front: a report on risk and cultural resistance within the neoliberal society of fear / Critical Art Ensemble; title: Exercise awareness-states / Henry Flynt; title: Readiness against risk / Jordan Crandall.