e-flux Journal #12
<p>What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question <i>not</i> asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave it to hover in the shadow of attempts at critical summation in the grand tradition of twentieth-century artistic movements? The contemporary delineates its border invisibly: no one is proud to be “contemporary,” and no one is ashamed. Indeed, the question of where artistic movements have gone seems embedded in this question, if only because “the contemporary” has become a single hegemonic “ism” that absorbs all proposals for others. When there are no longer any artistic movements, it seems that we are all working under the auspices of this singular ism that is deliberately (and literally) not one at all…</p> <p><b>What is Contemporary Art? Issue Two</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Contemporary Extracts</b><br /> Hal Foster</p> <p><b>Contemp(t)orary: Eleven Theses</b><br /> Cuauhtémoc Medina</p> <p><b>Manifestos for the Future</b><br /> Hans Ulrich Obrist</p> <p><b>Now and Elsewhere</b><br /> Raqs Media Collective</p> <p><b>Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-critical Art “Survive”?</b><br /> Martha Rosler</p> <p><b>Standing on the Gates of Hell, My Services Are Found Wanting </b><br /> Jan Verwoert</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Hal Foster, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Raqs Media Collective, Martha Rosler, Jan Verwoert
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625