Table of Contents
Contributors ix INTRODUCTION 1 Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson
1 THE CONTEMPORARY AND GLOBALIZATION 5
Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, and the Rise of Biennials 7 Tim Griffin
“Our” Contemporaneity? 17 Terry Smith
The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now! 28 Jean-Philippe Antoine
2 ART AFTER MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM 37
Elite Art in an Age of Populism 39 Julian Stallabrass
“Of Adversity we Live!” 50 Monica Amor
Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary
Art in China 60 Pauline J. Yao
3 FORMALISM 70
Form Struggles 72 Jan Verwoert
Formalism Redefined 84 Anne Ellegood
The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global 95 Joan Kee
4 MEDIUM SPECIFICITY 105
The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art 107 Sabeth Buchmann
Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form 117 Irene V. Small
Specificity 126 Richard Shiff
5 ART AND TECHNOLOGY 137
Test Sites: Fabrication 139 Michelle Kuo
Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond Technical Invention 149 Ina Blom
Conceptual Art 2.0 159 David Joselit
6 BIENNIALS 169
In Defense of Biennials 171 Massimiliano Gioni
Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds 178 Geeta Kapur
Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience 192 Caroline A. Jones
7 PARTICIPATION 202
Participation 204 Liam Gillick and Maria Lind
The Ripple Effect: “Participation” as an Expanded Field 214 Johanna Burton
Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art 224 Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
8 ACTIVISM 232
Activism 234 Andrea Giunta
Knit Dissent 245 Julia Bryan-Wilson
Light from a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, and Politics 254 Raqs Media Collective
9 AGENCY 265
Participation in Art: 10 Theses 267 Juliane Rebentisch
Fusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in Order of Preference 277 Tirdad Zolghadr
Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life 287 T. J. Demos
10 THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM 298
Monotheism à la Mode 300 Sven Lütticken
Freedom’s Just Another Word 311 Terri Weissman
On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary Pakistani Art 322 Atteqa Ali
11 JUDGMENT 331
Judgment’s Troubled Objects 333 João Ribas
A Producer’s Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go 346 Frank Smigiel
After Criticism 357 Lane Relyea
12 MARKETS 367
Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market 369 Olav Velthuis
Three Perspectives on the Market 379 Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen
Untitled 388 Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
13 ART SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY 406
Lifelong Learning 408 Katy Siegel
Art without Institutions 420 Anton Vidokle
Will the Academy Become a Monster? 429 Pi Li
14 SCHOLARSHIP 436
Our Literal Speed 438
Our Literal Speed Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference 447 Chika Okeke-Agulu
The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art 457 Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Index 467