In 2004, Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation was published following our first two year pilot-programme of lectures and commissions. The book, edited by Claire Doherty, collects together texts and interviews with key artists, curators and writers involved in the issue of context and site-specificity in the contemporary international art scene. Included are artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn and Kathrin Bohm, who have – in very different ways – investigated the relationship between architecture and social interaction; Nicolas Bourriaud, the author of the influential book Relational Aesthetics; and curators from innovative art museums including Catherine David whose extensive list of projects includes Documenta X. This book continues and expands on the critical investigations of writers such as Douglas Crimp, Rosalyn Deutsche, Brian Wallis and Lucy Lippard into the shifting relations between artist, institution, and practice/production.
This book is now out-of-print but you can read Claire Doherty’s introduction here.
Contents
Claire Doherty The New Situationists
Daniel Buren The Function of the Studio
Miwon Kwon The Wrong Place
Nicolas Bourriaud Berlin Letter about Relational Aesthetics
In conversation Rod Dickinson and Charlie Gere
Aleksandra Mir, BBC Radio Bristol and Claire Doherty
Nathan Coley and Claire Doherty
Catherine David and Irit Rogoff
Jeremy Deller and Claire Doherty
James Lingwood and Richard Wentworth
Maria Lind Actualisation of Space: The Case of Oda Projesi
Paul Domela FURTHER Up in the Air
Thomas Hirschhorn Bataille Monument
Adam Dant Donald Parsnips Daily Journal
Cuauhtémoc Medina Mejor Vida Corp.
Kathrin Böhm public works
Becky Shaw Twelve Museums
Jimmie Durham Situations
Published by Black Dog Publishing, London
ISBN-10: 1904772064
ISBN-13: 978-1904772064
