e-flux Journal #4
<p>Much of the tension within the sphere of contemporary art is generated by the insularity of the art context, which often prompts artists to be on the lookout for other situations. The museum is too exclusive, the artwork overly framed, the discourse too removed from everyday life. And yet, attempts to liberate artworks from their conditioning often finds them still connected to the art context by a rigid tether. Boris Groys has suggested that in order for art to be shown in public spaces and still maintain its status as art, it must by necessity be more conservative than art shown within institutions, because by forsaking art’s traditional context, it bears the burden of having to justify itself through other means…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Concerning Matters to be Left for a Later Date, Part 1 of 4</b><br /> Michael Baers</p> <p><b>A Museum That is Not</b><br /> Elena Filipovic</p> <p><b>Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction</b><br /> Boris Groys</p> <p><b>Two in One</b><br /> Silvia Kolbowski</p> <p><b>The Academy is Back: On Education, the Bologna Process, and the Doctorate in the Arts</b><br /> Dieter Lesage</p> <p><b>The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art</b><br /> Dieter Roelstraete</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Michael Baers, Elena Filipovic, Boris Groys, Silvia Kolbowski, Dieter Lesage, Dieter Roelstraete
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625