Where is Art?: Space, Time, and Location in Contemporary Art

by Simone Douglas (Editor), Adam Geczy (Editor), Sean Lowry (Editor)

Overview

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated.

While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the question “what is art?,” a key question for many artists and thinkers in the twenty-first century has become “where is art?” Contributors explore the challenge of meaningfully identifying and evaluating works located across multiple versions and locations in space and time. In doing so, they also seek to find appropriate language and criteria for evaluating forms of art that often straddle other realms of knowledge and activity.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, art criticism, and philosophy of art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000608083
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2022
Series:	Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	242
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Simone Douglas is a Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NY, NY where she directed the MFA Fine Arts program from 2009 to 2019.

Adam Geczy teaches at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

Sean Lowry is Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies and Associate Director (Research) at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Simone Douglas, Adam Geczy, and Sean Lowry

2. Where is Art?

Sean Lowry and Adam Geczy

3. Performance, Art, and the Relational Self

Amelia Jones

4. Chronotopograpical Nodes and Moments of Encounter

Sreshta Rit Premnath

5. Evidence

Sharmistha Ray

6. Ice Boat: Field Notes (in Advance of a Melt)

Simone Douglas

7. Bland Matter: New Materialism, and Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Adam Geczy

8. Bandness

Sean Lowry and Ilmar Taimre

9. Glittereiki

Genevieve Hyacinthe

10. Beirut Lab: 1975 (2020): Or: again, rubbed smooth, a moment in time__caesura

Juli Carson

11. IrDaEdNiTcIaTlY

Jeffrey Strayer

12. Would the Real Tusk Please Stand Up?

Rosanna Raymond

13. Handiwork of Migrancy, Restitutions in the Contemporary

Patrick Flores

14. Erasure or Erased: An Artworld (AND WORLD) Adrift

Brad Buckley

15. All the World’s Futures

Orianna Cacchione and Jessica Hong

16. Appendix: Project Anywhere

Sean Lowry and Simone Douglas