Gosse / Stott Nervous Systems

Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2205-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gosse, Johanna

Stott, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Judith Rodenbeck vii
Acknowledgments ix
After the Breakdown: Sixty Years of Systems Art / Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott 1
Section I: Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics
1. Jack Burnham Redux: Reappraising System Aesthetics / Luke Skrebowski 31
2. The Artist as "Weatherman": Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology / John Tyson 55
3. Desalineación: Open Systems as Social Transformation in Tucumán Arde / Christine Filippone 78
Section II: Nervous Interfaces
4. The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines / Kris Cohen 103
5. Light and Space as Institutional Critique / Dawna Schuld 125
6. One among Many: Experiencing Complexity in Participatory Art Systems / Cristina Albu 148
Section III: The Contemporary Art World Described as a System
7. Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: Liam Gillick's Disappointing Systems / Francis Halsall 173
8. Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: Mel Chin's The Arctic Is. / Amanda Boetzkes 192
9. Mapping, SEA STATE, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore / Brianne Cohen 213
10. Toward Infrastructure Art: Containerization, Black Box Logistics, and New Distribution Complexes / Jaimey Hamilton Faris 235
Selected Bibliography 261
Contributors 277
Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Johanna Gosse is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Idaho.

Timothy Stott is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, and author of Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices.