'Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of life—not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. Could it be that the Moscow Conceptualists were so elusive or saturated with the particularities of life in a specific economic and intellectual culture that they precluded integration into a broader art historical narrative? If so, then their simultaneously modest and radical approach to form may present a key to understanding the resilience and flexibility of a more general sphere of global conceptualisms that anticipate, surpass, or even bend around their purported origins in canonical European and American regimes of representation, as well as what we currently understand to be the horizon of artistic practice.' - from back cover.
Alternative title
e-flux journal
Access level
Onsite
publisher
editor
Location code
REF.GRB2
Language
English
Keywords
conceptualism,  participatory art,  space,  time
Publication/Creation date
2012
No of pages
174
ISBN / ISSN
9783943365115
No of copies
1
Content type
anthology
Chapter headings
Introduction - Boris GROYS
Performing Objects, Narrating Installations: Moscow Conceptualism and the Rediscovery of the Art Object - Ekaterina DEGOT
One and Three Ideas: Conceptualism Before, During and After Conceptual Art - Terry SMITH
Soviet Material Culture and Socialist Ethics in Moscow Conceptualism - Keti CHUKHROV
Art without Work? - Anton VIDOKLE
Moscow Romantic Exceptionalism: The Suspension of Disbelief - Sarah WILSON
Zones of Indistinguishability: Collective Actions Group and Participatory Art - Claire BISHOP
Moscow, Romantic, Conceptualism, and After - Jörg HEISER
Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited

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