This publication is produced on the occasion of group exhibition of the same title held in Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice from June to November 2013.

The exhibition is a reconstruction of a previous exhibition in 1969 entitled 'Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form: Works - Concepts - Processes - Situations - Information', curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1969. The first half of the volume gives an photographic presentation of this exhibition, whereas the other half document the process of reconstructing the exhibition in 2013. The section contains a preface, a foreword, an introductory collective interview, and essays by scholars, theorists and curators. 

In 1969 the Kunsthalle in Bern was occupied by young revolutionary artists exploring a new approach to art and architecture. Their styles are characterized by liberating and interactive processes, overcoming preconceived boundaries. The 1969 exhibition is entirely recreated in the ancient halls of the Venetian palazzo. This literal superposition of spaces will generate new and unexpected spatial and artistic relations at multiple levels, giving the possibility to re-experience the 1969 exhibition. The aim of the project is to explore the physical and conceptual horizons of visual language through the re-visitation of Post-Pop and Post-Minimalist Art research of the time, developed in the mid-1960s. 

Including a selected bibliography.
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Onsite

Location code
EX.ITA.WAB
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

727

ISBN / ISSN

9788887029550

No of copies

2

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

A Readymade: When Attitudes Become Form - Germano CELANT

Why and How

Germano Celant - Thomas DEMAND

Germano Celant - Rem KOOLHAAS

Make It Re- The Eternally Returning Object - Dieter ROELSTRAETE

Reconstruction Era: The Anachronic Time(s) of Installation Art - Claire BISHOP

Footnote for 'When Attitudes Becom: Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013': On Reproduction and Re-production - Pierre BAL-BLANC

Every Critical Act is a Creative Act - Francesco STOCCHI

Art Topology: The Reproduction of Aura - Boris GROYS

Alternatives and Attitudes: Today and Yesterday - Mary Anne STANISZEWSKI

A Different Setting Changes Everything - Charles ESCHE

Drama and Dynamism - Christian RATTEMEYER

Conventions of Display - Anne RORIMER, Anne RORIMER

Attitude Problems - Jens HOFFMANN

The Thresholds of 1969 - Benjamin H.D. BUCHLOH

The Catalogue as an Exhibition Space in the 1960s and 1970s - Gwen ALLEN

The Politics of Attitudes: On the Relationship Between Attitude, Skepticism and Disengagement - Chus MARTINEZ

Artists as Curators/Curators as Artists: Exhibitionary Form since 1969 - Terry SMITH

Jokes on the Index: On the Signature of Congenial Passions and Common Wit - Jan VERWOERT

When 'Attitudes' Became History: The Harald Szeemann Archive - Glenn PHILIPS

When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013
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