"Claire Doherty's Situation offers a scholarly yet accessible cross-disciplinary mapping out of the complex discursive interpenetrations of notions of site, public sphere, social space, location-driven research processes and related issues, from the perspectives of artists, curators, art historians, critics, theorists and other cultural producers. The five sections comprising the book propose useful ideational constellations, generating a trans-historical (i.e. non-linear/anti-chronological) interplay of excerpted artist writings, critical texts, curatorial frameworks and theoretical discourses from the start of the 1960s to the present, enlivening the conversation about what it means to be situational."-- Joshua Decter, Critic and Curator, Director of the Master of Public Art Studies Program (Art in the Public Sphere), USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles "This excellent and stimulating book revisits the notions of site and space to underline the increasing importance of situations, opening and thinking about new ways of making and curating art." Hans Ulrich Obrist , Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London
Claire Doherty is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the
University of West England, Bristol, where she established
Situations (www.situations.org.uk), a research and international
commissioning program. She is Visiting Lecturer in Curating at the
Royal College of Art, London, and Curatorial Director of the One
Day Sculpture series, New Zealand. She is the editor of
Contemporary Art- From Studio to Situation.
Thierry de Duve is Director of Studies, Association de
prefiguration de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris.
Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the
University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum's Ruins
and Melancholia and Moralism- Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics,
both published by the MIT Press.
James Meyer is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory
University. He is the author of Minimalism- Art and Polemics in the
Sixties and the editor of The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other
Writings 1986-2003 by Gregg Bordowitz (MIT Press, 2004).
Peter Weibel is Chairman and CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and
Media Karlsruhe. With Bruno Latour, he coedited ICONOCLASH and
Making Things Public as well as other ZKM volumes, including, most
recently, Sound Art and Global Activism (all published by the MIT
Press).
Michel Foucault (1926-84) is widely considered to be one of the
most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has
proven influential across disciplines.
Hal Foster is Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology
at Princeton University and the author of Prosthetic Gods (MIT
Press) and other books.
Miwon Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Paris VIII, Vincennes/Saint Denis. He published 25
books, including five in collaboration with Felix Guattari.
Felix Guattari (1930-1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and
philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles Deleuze),
and a number of books published by Semiotext(e), including The
Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy, and Soft Subversions.
Gabriel Orozco is an internationally renowned contemporary artist.
He has had solo exhibitions at venues including Musee d'art moderne
de la Ville Paris, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the
Guggenheim in New York. Traveling retrospectives have been
presented at Kunsthalle Z rich; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris;
the Tate Modern, London; and elsewhere. He has participated in the
Venice Biennale (1993, 2003, 2005), the Whitney Biennial (1997),
and Documenta X (1997) and XI (2002).
Shep Steiner, an art historian and critic, teaches at Emily Carr
University of Art and Design, Vancouver. His writing has appeared
in C-Magazine, Parachute, Journal of Visual Culture, and other
publications.
Writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary, Guy Debord
(1931-1994) was a founding member of the Lettrist International and
Situationist International groups. His films and books, including
Society of the Spectacle (1967), were major catalysts for
philosophical and political changes in the twentieth century, and
helped trigger the May 1968 rebellion in France.
Oskar Negt is Professor of Sociology at the Universit t Hannover.
Early in his career, he was a student of Theodor Adorno and
assistant to J rgen Habermas.
Alexander Kluge is an author and filmmaker, known for launching the
New German Cinema in the early 1960s.
Conceptual artist Vito Acconci is known for his work in performance
and video art.
Simon Sheikh, a curator and theorist, is Reader in Art and
Programme Director of the MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths, Universi
"Claire Doherty's Situation offers a scholarly yet accessible cross-disciplinary mapping out of the complex discursive interpenetrations of notions of site, public sphere, social space, location-driven research processes and related issues, from the perspectives of artists, curators, art historians, critics, theorists and other cultural producers. The five sections comprising the book propose useful ideational constellations, generating a trans-historical (i.e. non-linear/anti-chronological) interplay of excerpted artist writings, critical texts, curatorial frameworks and theoretical discourses from the start of the 1960s to the present, enlivening the conversation about what it means to be situational."-- Joshua Decter, Critic and Curator, Director of the Master of Public Art Studies Program (Art in the Public Sphere), USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles "This excellent and stimulating book revisits the notions of site and space to underline the increasing importance of situations, opening and thinking about new ways of making and curating art." Hans Ulrich Obrist , Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London
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