e-flux Journal #29
<p>This month in <i>e-flux journal</i>, we are pleased to present a special issue focusing on Moscow Conceptualism, guest-edited by Boris Groys in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions, curated by Groys and on view at e-flux until January 6, 2012.</p> <p>The essays in the issue take the works and activities of the Moscow Conceptualists—among whom Monastyrski was a central figure—as a departure point for interrogating not only the specific concerns of a small group of advanced artists working in relative obscurity in the Soviet Union of the 1970s, but also how the modest artistic practices they developed reflect the resilience and flexibility of a more general sphere of conceptualisms in the plural…</p> <p><b>Preface</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Introduction—Global Conceptualism Revisited</b><br /> Boris Groys</p> <p><b>Performing Objects, Narrating Installations: Moscow Conceptualism and the Rediscovery of the Art Object</b><br /> Ekaterina Degot</p> <p><b>One and Three Ideas: Conceptualism Before, During, and After Conceptual Art</b><br /> Terry Smith</p> <p><b>Soviet Material Culture and Socialist Ethics in Moscow Conceptualism</b><br /> Keti Chukhrov</p> <p><b>Art without Work?</b><br /> Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Moscow Romantic Exceptionalism: The Suspension of Disbelief</b><br /> Sarah Wilson</p> <p><b>Zones of Indistinguishability: Collective Actions Group and Participatory Art</b><br /> Claire Bishop</p> <p><b>Moscow, Romantic, Conceptualism, and After</b><br /> Jörg Heiser</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Boris Groys
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Boris Groys, Ekaterina Degot, Terry Smith, Keti Chukhrov, Sarah Wilson, Claire Bishop, Jörg Heiser
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625