Former West : art and the contemporary after 1989 /
Former West : art and the contemporary after 1989 /
edited by Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh.
- 742 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
"This book has been published in the context of the curatorial and artistic research experiment FORMER WEST (2008-2016) developed by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and realized through manifold partnerships with artists, theorists, activists, as well as art and educational institutions transnationally."--Page 8.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Untitled / Preface in place of a postscript / Formering the West -- Art, 1989, the contemporary. An artist who cannot speak English is no artist / A formalism as wishful as it was dialectical / The contemporary condition: postmodernity, post-socialism, postcolonialism / Place-making in the "wrong place": contemporary art and the postcolonial condition / Transformations in the former West / The end of contemporary art (as we knew it) / Perestroika timeline / Looking for the meaning of "decolonial gesture" / A short glossary of the present / In what does the "formerness" of the West reside?: an itinerary of the contemporary from societies in transition / Contemp(t)orary: eleven theses / When is contemporary art? / Timing the former. Surnam Viet given name Nam / A time machine theory of history / Theorizing today: the post-Soviet condition / The communist horizon / Soviet communism and the paradox of alienation / Homage to the half-truth. Renationalization and artistic imagination in Hungary: a case study / Times of interregnum / Certain resemblances: notes on performance, event, and political images / Posthuman prehistory / Fifty years of African decolonization / Between globalization and global warming: transitions in political narratives of the West and the non-West / Aernout Mik -- Maria Hlavajova -- Mladen Stilinović -- Peter Osborne -- Boris Groys -- Okwui Enwezor -- Georg Schöllhammer -- Marion von Osten -- Chto Delat?/What is to be done? -- Walter D. Mignolo -- Rasha Salti -- Nancy Adajania -- Cuauhtémoc Medina -- Suhail Malik -- Trịnh T. Minh-hà -- McKenzie Wark -- Susan Buck-Morss -- Jodi Dean -- Artemy Magun -- Edit András -- Zygmunt Bauman -- Sharon Hayes -- Sven Lütticken -- Achille Mbembe -- Dipesh Chakrabarty (in conversation with Boris Buden). Editors' note: Understructures. 3 continents / Between not everything and not nothing: cuts toward infrastructural critique / Extrastatecraft / Arcana Mathematica Imperii: the evolution of Western computational norms / The West and bordering / Memories of development / Petro-subjectivity / Political plastic / After and beyond the West: resonances of the common / A tank on a pedestal: museums in an age of planetary civil war / "Europe looked in the mirror and saw the world. Beyond that lay nothing" / There is a West. It could be the North. Either way, it is real / Toward another political economy? Nature meets itself in the stomach of the predators / Creating a distance from the Western-centric political imagination / Whose limits?: the generational continuum (1972-2015) / Feminism and the politics of the commons / Unproductive circulation, excessive consumption / Who is building the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi? / What is an art worker?: five theses on the complexity of a struggle / Autonomy and precarization: (neo)liberal entanglements of labor and care in the former West / Dividual, derivatives, debts / The new rules of algorithmic institutions / Nástio Mosquito -- Marina Vishmidt -- Keller Easterling -- Matteo Pasquinelli -- Naoki Sakai -- Paulo Tavares -- Brett Bloom -- Eyal Weizman (in conversation with Lucy Lopez) -- Sandro Mezzadra -- Hito Steyerl -- Charles Esche -- Vijay Prashad -- Andreas Siekmann -- Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Pedro Neves Marques -- Silvia Federici -- Angela Mitropoulos -- Gulf Labor Coalition -- Angela Dimitrakaki -- Isabell Lorey -- Gerald Raunig -- Stefano Harney. Power and truth (after the Internet). Young men (Man kind) / Work at the bleeding edge of sovereignty / The pixelated revolution / From islands to oceans to clouds: stateless subjects and planetary publics in the anthropocene / Crisis, crisis, crisis, or sovereignty and networks / A single swing of the shovel: former West proxies / Computing the law: searching for justice / Constructions of the "we." Foreigners out---Please love Austria / Modes of assembly: art, the people, and the state / A missing people / Where is the "former" in neocoloniality?: complications of diversity-led inclusion in the arts and the dumbing down of cosmopolitical discourse / Another we: invading the institution / "Great" Britain in the former West / Appointment with history / Peripheres, housewives, and artists in revolt: notes from the "former East" / Fascisms: historical, neo, and post / Who do we face? / Prospects. Through (A través de) / No future: the space of capital and the time of dying / West or Rojava: toward democratic modernity / Collective dictionary: political / Reproduction as paradigm: elements for a feminist political economy / World-making as commitment / Performing the institution "as if it were possible" / Live your models: self-orientation and social form / No present / Witch hunt / Marlene Dumas -- Tung-Hui Hu -- Rabih Mroué -- Laura McLean -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann -- Susan Schuppli -- Christoph Schlingensief -- Dave Beech -- Rosi Braidotti (in conversation with Maria Hlavajova) -- Andrea Phillips -- Francesco Salvini -- Nina Power -- Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor -- Ewa Majewska -- Rastko Močnik -- Irit Rogoff -- Teresa Margolles -- Sami Khatib -- Dilar Dirik -- Campus in Camps -- Federica Giardini and Anna Simone -- Jonas Staal (in conversation with Maria Hlavajova) -- Athena Athanasiou -- Brian Holmes -- Mark Fisher -- Delaine Le Bas. Visual interventions -- Contributors -- FORMER WEST: (a condensed summary) -- Acknowledgements -- Index --
9780262533836 0262533839 9780262533836: £32.95
2016039677
1900-2099
Art, Modern--History--21st century
Art, Modern--History--20th century
World politics--1989-
Art--Political aspects--History--20th century
Art--Political aspects--History--21st century
Art and society--History--20th century
Art and society--History--21st century
Art, Modern--21st century
Art and history.
Post-communism.
Postcolonialism.
Art, Modern.
Art and history.
Art and society.
Art--Political aspects
Post-communism.
Postcolonialism.
20.07 art criticism, art review.
Kunst
Moderne
Gesellschaft
Politik
Politischer Wandel
Postkolonialismus
Postkommunismus
Art and Design.
History of art
21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
c 1990 to c 1999
Europe
The arts: general issues
Theory of art
Westliche Welt
History.
/ F665 2016
709.045
"This book has been published in the context of the curatorial and artistic research experiment FORMER WEST (2008-2016) developed by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and realized through manifold partnerships with artists, theorists, activists, as well as art and educational institutions transnationally."--Page 8.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Untitled / Preface in place of a postscript / Formering the West -- Art, 1989, the contemporary. An artist who cannot speak English is no artist / A formalism as wishful as it was dialectical / The contemporary condition: postmodernity, post-socialism, postcolonialism / Place-making in the "wrong place": contemporary art and the postcolonial condition / Transformations in the former West / The end of contemporary art (as we knew it) / Perestroika timeline / Looking for the meaning of "decolonial gesture" / A short glossary of the present / In what does the "formerness" of the West reside?: an itinerary of the contemporary from societies in transition / Contemp(t)orary: eleven theses / When is contemporary art? / Timing the former. Surnam Viet given name Nam / A time machine theory of history / Theorizing today: the post-Soviet condition / The communist horizon / Soviet communism and the paradox of alienation / Homage to the half-truth. Renationalization and artistic imagination in Hungary: a case study / Times of interregnum / Certain resemblances: notes on performance, event, and political images / Posthuman prehistory / Fifty years of African decolonization / Between globalization and global warming: transitions in political narratives of the West and the non-West / Aernout Mik -- Maria Hlavajova -- Mladen Stilinović -- Peter Osborne -- Boris Groys -- Okwui Enwezor -- Georg Schöllhammer -- Marion von Osten -- Chto Delat?/What is to be done? -- Walter D. Mignolo -- Rasha Salti -- Nancy Adajania -- Cuauhtémoc Medina -- Suhail Malik -- Trịnh T. Minh-hà -- McKenzie Wark -- Susan Buck-Morss -- Jodi Dean -- Artemy Magun -- Edit András -- Zygmunt Bauman -- Sharon Hayes -- Sven Lütticken -- Achille Mbembe -- Dipesh Chakrabarty (in conversation with Boris Buden). Editors' note: Understructures. 3 continents / Between not everything and not nothing: cuts toward infrastructural critique / Extrastatecraft / Arcana Mathematica Imperii: the evolution of Western computational norms / The West and bordering / Memories of development / Petro-subjectivity / Political plastic / After and beyond the West: resonances of the common / A tank on a pedestal: museums in an age of planetary civil war / "Europe looked in the mirror and saw the world. Beyond that lay nothing" / There is a West. It could be the North. Either way, it is real / Toward another political economy? Nature meets itself in the stomach of the predators / Creating a distance from the Western-centric political imagination / Whose limits?: the generational continuum (1972-2015) / Feminism and the politics of the commons / Unproductive circulation, excessive consumption / Who is building the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi? / What is an art worker?: five theses on the complexity of a struggle / Autonomy and precarization: (neo)liberal entanglements of labor and care in the former West / Dividual, derivatives, debts / The new rules of algorithmic institutions / Nástio Mosquito -- Marina Vishmidt -- Keller Easterling -- Matteo Pasquinelli -- Naoki Sakai -- Paulo Tavares -- Brett Bloom -- Eyal Weizman (in conversation with Lucy Lopez) -- Sandro Mezzadra -- Hito Steyerl -- Charles Esche -- Vijay Prashad -- Andreas Siekmann -- Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Pedro Neves Marques -- Silvia Federici -- Angela Mitropoulos -- Gulf Labor Coalition -- Angela Dimitrakaki -- Isabell Lorey -- Gerald Raunig -- Stefano Harney. Power and truth (after the Internet). Young men (Man kind) / Work at the bleeding edge of sovereignty / The pixelated revolution / From islands to oceans to clouds: stateless subjects and planetary publics in the anthropocene / Crisis, crisis, crisis, or sovereignty and networks / A single swing of the shovel: former West proxies / Computing the law: searching for justice / Constructions of the "we." Foreigners out---Please love Austria / Modes of assembly: art, the people, and the state / A missing people / Where is the "former" in neocoloniality?: complications of diversity-led inclusion in the arts and the dumbing down of cosmopolitical discourse / Another we: invading the institution / "Great" Britain in the former West / Appointment with history / Peripheres, housewives, and artists in revolt: notes from the "former East" / Fascisms: historical, neo, and post / Who do we face? / Prospects. Through (A través de) / No future: the space of capital and the time of dying / West or Rojava: toward democratic modernity / Collective dictionary: political / Reproduction as paradigm: elements for a feminist political economy / World-making as commitment / Performing the institution "as if it were possible" / Live your models: self-orientation and social form / No present / Witch hunt / Marlene Dumas -- Tung-Hui Hu -- Rabih Mroué -- Laura McLean -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Boaz Levin and Vera Tollmann -- Susan Schuppli -- Christoph Schlingensief -- Dave Beech -- Rosi Braidotti (in conversation with Maria Hlavajova) -- Andrea Phillips -- Francesco Salvini -- Nina Power -- Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor -- Ewa Majewska -- Rastko Močnik -- Irit Rogoff -- Teresa Margolles -- Sami Khatib -- Dilar Dirik -- Campus in Camps -- Federica Giardini and Anna Simone -- Jonas Staal (in conversation with Maria Hlavajova) -- Athena Athanasiou -- Brian Holmes -- Mark Fisher -- Delaine Le Bas. Visual interventions -- Contributors -- FORMER WEST: (a condensed summary) -- Acknowledgements -- Index --
9780262533836 0262533839 9780262533836: £32.95
2016039677
1900-2099
Art, Modern--History--21st century
Art, Modern--History--20th century
World politics--1989-
Art--Political aspects--History--20th century
Art--Political aspects--History--21st century
Art and society--History--20th century
Art and society--History--21st century
Art, Modern--21st century
Art and history.
Post-communism.
Postcolonialism.
Art, Modern.
Art and history.
Art and society.
Art--Political aspects
Post-communism.
Postcolonialism.
20.07 art criticism, art review.
Kunst
Moderne
Gesellschaft
Politik
Politischer Wandel
Postkolonialismus
Postkommunismus
Art and Design.
History of art
21st century, c 2000 to c 2100
c 1990 to c 1999
Europe
The arts: general issues
Theory of art
Westliche Welt
History.
/ F665 2016
709.045