Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present

Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 11
Introduction......Page 19
A User’s Guide to Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present......Page 21
1 The Contemporary and Globalization......Page 23
Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials......Page 25
“Our” Contemporaneity?......Page 35
Ab-original: Contemporaneity and the Origins of Art......Page 37
The Art-World Considers “the contemporary”......Page 40
The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now!......Page 46
2 Art after Modernism and Postmodernism......Page 55
Elite Art in an Age of Populism......Page 57
“Of Adversity we Live!”......Page 68
Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary Art in China......Page 78
3 Formalism......Page 88
Polemics......Page 90
Łódź......Page 91
Multiple Ironies......Page 93
Generational Contracts......Page 95
Form Incorporating Ironies......Page 97
Formalism Redefined......Page 102
The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global......Page 113
4 Medium Specificity......Page 123
Media Specificity in Context......Page 125
Around ’89......Page 127
Recollecting (Media) History......Page 129
Open End......Page 133
Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form......Page 135
Specificity......Page 144
5 Art and Technology......Page 155
Test Sites: Fabrication......Page 157
Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention......Page 167
Conceptual Art 2.0......Page 177
Platforms......Page 180
Nodes and Nets......Page 182
Conceptual Art 2.0......Page 185
6 Biennials......Page 187
In Defense of Biennials......Page 189
Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds......Page 196
Trajectories of Experience......Page 210
Philosophies......Page 214
7 Participation......Page 220
Participation......Page 222
The Ripple Effect: “Participation” as an Expanded Field......Page 232
Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art......Page 242
8 Activism......Page 250
Activism......Page 252
Craft Kills......Page 263
Contemporary War/Craft......Page 266
Labor, Politics, Gender......Page 268
Plenitude?......Page 272
Time-out?......Page 273
Plugs and Sockets?......Page 274
Protagonist?......Page 275
World?......Page 276
Acts?......Page 278
Storytellers?......Page 279
Significance?......Page 280
Time?......Page 281
9 Agency......Page 283
Participation in Art: 10 Theses......Page 285
Fusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in Order of Preference......Page 295
Indefinite Postponements......Page 296
Catholics......Page 297
Conspirateurs Professionnels......Page 299
Atheist Choir Boys......Page 300
Strategic Essentialism......Page 302
Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life......Page 305
10 The Rise of Fundamentalism......Page 316
Monotheism à la Mode......Page 318
Return of the Toad......Page 319
Iconoclasm: A Modernology......Page 320
The Profanations of Art......Page 323
Erasures......Page 325
Protest Scene......Page 329
The Fundamental Right......Page 332
Consensus Overruling Democracy......Page 335
Who Speaks Thus?......Page 337
On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art......Page 340
11 Judgment......Page 349
Judgment’s Troubled Objects......Page 351
1......Page 364
2......Page 366
3......Page 368
4......Page 371
After Criticism......Page 375
12 Markets......Page 385
The Rise of the Art Fair, the Internet, and the Auction Houses......Page 387
Globalization and its Limits......Page 390
Commercialization......Page 392
The Limits of “Hostile Worlds”......Page 393
Three Perspectives on the Market......Page 397
Untitled......Page 406
13 Art Schools and the Academy......Page 424
Hyper School......Page 426
Amateur Institutions......Page 429
Professional Amateurs......Page 431
School as Form......Page 432
Before and After......Page 435
Art without Institutions......Page 438
“Will the Academy Become a Monster?”......Page 447
14 Scholarship......Page 454
Our Literal Speed......Page 456
Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference......Page 465
The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art......Page 475
The Contemporary is not the Present......Page 476
Art History is not the Past......Page 480
Contemporary Art Needs Contemporary Art History......Page 481
Index......Page 485