e-flux Journal #13
<p>Repeated attempts to dismantle the aura of value and rarity surrounding art objects have been, for the most part, unsuccessful. Why is that? The majority of these attempts throughout the twentieth century have consisted of infiltrating the economy of care, custodianship, conservation, and considered attention granted to art objects upon entry into the art establishment. While the introduction of impostors into this ecosystem in the form of real-world doubles (such as Duchampian readymades) served to short-circuit the aura of authenticity within spaces of art, over time these impostors nevertheless began to perform the function of ritualizing a general sense of disbelief with regard to the art establishment’s unpredictable and indeterminate patterns of attention to art objects…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Criticism and Experience</b><br /> Bernardo Ortiz Campo</p> <p><b>Tempus Edax Rerum?</b><br /> Adam Kleinman</p> <p><b>The Death of the Audience: A Conversation with Pierre Bal-Blanc </b><br /> Elisabeth Lebovici</p> <p><b>Art and Thingness, Part I: Breton’s Ball and Duchamp’s Carrot</b><br /> Sven Lütticken</p> <p><b>Innovative Forms of Archives, Part One: Exhibitions, Events, Books, Museums, and Lia Perjovschi’s Contemporary Art Archive </b><br /> Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez</p> <p><b>Negation Notes (while working on an exhibition with Allan Sekula featuring This Ain’t China: A Photonovel) </b><br /> Monika Szewczyk</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Bernardo Ortiz Campo, Adam Kleinman, Elisabeth Lebovici, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Sven Lütticken, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Monika Szewczyk
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625