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Spangbergianism

An essay by Mårten Spångberg

“This book is a performance. It was put together over sixty-four days as a sort of rehearsal, during which every day resulted in a showing [forbid them] in the shape of a blog-post. It’s material, …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Zombies Of Immaterial Labour: The Modern Monster And The Death Of Death

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An essay by Lars Bang Larsen

“My proposal, perverse or braindead as it may be, is that the zombie begs a materialist analysis with a view to contemporary culture. Such an analysis is necessarily double-edged. The zombie is pure need without …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Conversation between Seth Siegelaub and Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Published In TRANS> #6, 1999

HANS ULRICH OBRIST: My first question concerns your most recent activity. Could you tell me about this special issue of Art Press called the “The Context of Art/The Art of Context” published in October 1996? …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Law Facing up to the Dematerialisation of the Work of Art

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An essay by Judith Ickowicz

“This text is an abstract of a PhD in private law submitted in 2009 at Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne. We are publishing it not only because it adresses the legal understanding of the dematerialisation of the …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Live Forever: Collecting Live Art

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Edited by Teresa Calonje

“The book now in your hands is itself a kind of collection, a gathering of the voices of some catalysts of contemporary performance: artists, cultural engineers, curators, collectors, set alongside critical meditations on the aesthetic, …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972

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By Lucy Lippard

“Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on esthetic boundaries:consisting of a bibliography in which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity

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An essay by Claire Bishop

This essay is presented on delegated performance in which nonprofessionals are hired to perform at a particular time on behalf of the artist on his or her instructions. The author stated that this social turn …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Welcome to this Situation

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An essay by Jörg Heiser

“In 2009 I went to Brussels to see a Tino Sehgal show at Galerie Jan Mot. It was not long after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and everything was being read as an expression of …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

The Death of the Audience

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Conversation between Elisabeth Lebovici and Pierre Bal-Blanc

Elisabeth Lebovici: I would like to begin with the title of the exhibition you curated at the Secession in Vienna in summer 2009, as it was what first enticed me to conduct this conversation with …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting

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Eds. Beatrice von Bismarck, Rike Frank, Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Jörn Schafaff, Thomas Weski

“Processuality and performativity, and more recently dramaturgy and choreography, are terms often used in analyses of exhibitions and other curatorial formats. These attributions reflect the changes curatorial practice has undergone over the past twenty years …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?

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Para Site International Conference 2014

The new performance turn, its histories and its institutions, “Para Site is proud to present “Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The new performance turn, its histories and its institutions.” The 2014 …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

The Terror of Total Dasein, Economies of Presence in the Art Field

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An essay by Hito Steyerl

“The International Artists’ Strike in 1979 was a “protest against the ongoing repression of the art system and the alienation of artists from the results of their work.” Djordjevic mailed invitations to numerous artists around …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life

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An essay by Hito Steyerl

Lets start with a simple proposition: what used to be work has increasingly been turned into occupation. This change in terminology may look trivial. In fact, almost everything changes on the way from work to …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Bringing Us Close at A Distance

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An essay by Nina Djekić

Prologue Objects can form a reflective surface through which we look at each other indirectly. As an interface they can offer us a way to affect each other, without needing to express an intention directly. …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Esthetic Entities

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An essay by Floring Flueras

Retroactive self-referentiality In the last 10 years entities with a complex esthetic operativity emerged in the zones of dance and visual arts of Bucharest. Attempts of understanding them are mostly made by insiders, as is …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Intangible Economies

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Ed. by Antonia Hirsch, Filiip, Vacouvert (2012)

Treating the idea of an economy as a general system of exchange, Intangible Economies advances the idea that personal relationships are produced by economic activity and that desire generates economic transactions. Intangible Economies speculatively investigates …

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galerie · March 10, 2021April 6, 2021

Number Shows, Process of attrition

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Lucy R. Lippard in conversation with Antony Hudek

Lucy R. Lippard’s first numbered show was “557,087” at Seattle’s World’s Fair Pavilion in September 1969, followed a few months later by an expanded version of the same show entitled “955,000” at the Vancouver Art …

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galerie · March 10, 2021

Apropos Appropriation: Why stealing images today feels different

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An essay by Jan Verwoert

Appropriation, first of all, is a common technique. People appropriate when they make things their own and integrate them into their way of life, by buying or stealing commodities, acquiring knowledge, claiming places as theirs …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

Art for Animal Audiences

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Prof. Jessica Ulrich

A conversation on Performances for Pets on the occasion of Animal Forms & Formulas – On the human-animal-relation in contemporary performance, Presented at Sophiensaele, Berlin Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey have been performing for pets …

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galerie · March 10, 2021March 10, 2021

KRÕÕT JUURAK, FAMILY, BAD MOOD AUDIENCE, SLEEPING BAD MOOD

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Publication by Galerie

The first comprehensive monograph on the work of Krõõt Juurak edited and published by Galerie ISBN: 9788797259405 Get your copy !

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outis · November 30, 2020April 6, 2021

Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

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A collection of writings by Allan Kaprow

Kaprow’s Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life (1993) is a collection of pieces written over four decades, that has made his theories about the practice of art in the present day available to …

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galerie · November 24, 2020March 10, 2021