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Bibliography (by topic)

 

0) Where, What, and When is the Contemporary?

Agamben, Giorgio. What is an Apparatus?. Stanford : Stanford Univ. Press, 2009

Belting, Hans. Contemporary Art as Global Art, Hans Beltin and Andrea Buddensieg, ed. The Global Art World: Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009, pp. 38­73.

Roo, Smano. A New Setting for the Contemporary. Hans Beltin and Andrea Buddensieg, ed. The Global Art World: Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009, pp. 348–357.

Nickas, Robert. A Brief History of the Audience, Performance Anxiety. Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997.

Foster, Hal, ed. Questionnaire on The Contemporary, October, 130, Fall 2009, pp. 3–124.

Weibel, Peter. Global Art: Rewritings, Transformations, and Translations. Hans Beltin and Andrea Buddensieg, ed. The Global Art World: Audiences, Markets, and Museums. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009, pp. 74­85.

Abdel-Malek, Anouar. Concept of Specificity. J. W. Freiberg, ed. Critical Sociology. New York : Irvington Publishers Inc., 1979, pp. 25–38.

 

1) A Little Geneaology of Social Relations and Practices

Adorno, Theodor. Aesthetic Theory. Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford : Stanford Univ. Press, 1998.

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Megan Sullivan. To Make an Inner Time: A Conversation with Gabriel Orozco. October, no. 130 (Fall 2009), pp. 177–196.

de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley : Univ. of California Press, 1988.

_____. Practices of Space. and The Jabbering of Social Life. Blonsky, Marshall. On Signs. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 122–154.

Lefebvre, Henri. Space: Social Produce and Use Value. J. W. Freiberg, ed. Critical Sociology. New York : Irvington Publishers Inc., 1979, pp. 285–296.

Foster, Hal. Against Pluralism. Recodings. Port Townsend, Wash. : Bay Press, 1985, pp. 13–33.

Foucault, Michel. Fearless Speech. Los Angeles : Semiotext(e), 2001.

Ganahl, Rainer. Imported—A Reading Seminar, Or How to Reinvent the Coffee Table: 25 Books for Instant Use (7 Different National Versions). Los Angeles : Semiotext(e), 1998.

_____. Reading Karl Marx. London : Book Works, 2001

Glissant, Edouard. Poetics of Relation. Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan, 1997.

Ranciere, Jacques. The Emancipated Spectator. London : Verso, 2009.

Spivak, Gayatri. Can the Subaltern Speak?, Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. ed. Cary Nelson and Lawerence Grossberg, Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Virno, Paolo. Multitude: Between Innovation and Imagination. Los Angeles : Semiotext(e), 2008.

Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life. London : Phaidon, 2001.

 

2) Urban Collectivism

Ault, Julie. Alternative Art, New York, 1965-1985: A Cultural Politics Book for the Social Text Collective. New York: Drawing Center, 2002.

Ammiratti, Dominick. Some Bad News. http://www.dextersinister.org/library.html?id=228.

Bordowitz, Gregg. Network Society. Art Journal. Vol. 60, No. 1–4 (Winter, 2000–Summer, 2001).

_____. Tactics Inside and Out. Artforum International. (September, 2004).

Claire Fontaine. We Are All Whatever Singularities http://www.clairefontaine.ws/text.html

_____. Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike: A Few Clairifications. http://aaaaarg.org/files/textz/4659-ready_made_artist_and.pdf

Deutsche, Rosalyn. Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City. Evictions. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1998, pp. 49–107.

Enwezor, Okwui. The Production of Social Space as Artwork: Protocols of Community in the Work of Le Groupe Amos and Huit Facettes. Stimson, Blake and Sholette, Gregory, ed. Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp. 223–252.

Gilbert, Chris. Art & Language and the Institutional Form in Anglo-American Collectivism. Stimson, Blake and Sholette, Gregory, ed. Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp. 77–94.

Group Material, Democracy. New York: The New Press/Dia Art Foundation, 1990.

Kelsey, John. Claire Fontaine Interview with John Kelsey. http://www.clairefontaine.ws/pdf/jk_interview_eng.pdf

Kester, Grant. Dialogical Aesthetics. Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2004.

Rosler, Martha. If You Lived Here. New York: The New Press/Dia Art Foundation, 1991.

Sholette, Gregory. Dark Matter: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere. http://www.gregorysholette.com/writings/writingpdfs/ 05_darkmattertwo.pdf

Welchman, John C. Institutional Critique and After. Zurich : SoCCAS and JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag AG, 2006.

 

3) Distribution/Disspersal

Arnar, Anna Sigrdur. Stphane Mallarm on the Democratic Potentials of the Fin-de-Sicle Nespaper. Sabine Folie, Un Coup de Ds: Writing Turned Image. An Alphabet of Pensive Language. Vienna: The Generali Foundation, 2008, pp. 202–212.

Benchley, Peter. The Lumpen Headache. The Fox, no. 3, JAAP Reitman, 1976.

Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions. October, Vol. 55, (Winter, 1990), pp. 105-143

_____. Sculpture between Nation-State and Global Commodity Production. Gabriel Orozco. ed. Ann Temkin, New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

Demos, T. J. The Cruel Dialectic: On the Work of Nils Norman, Grey Room, No. 13 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 32-53

Derrida, Jacques. Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences. Writing and Difference. Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press, 1978, pp. 278­293.

_____. Positions. London : Continuum, 1972, pp. 37­114.

Ltticken, Sven. Life, Once More : Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary Art. Rotterdam : Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2005.

_____. Secret Publicity. Rotterdam : NAi Publishers, 2006.

Mallarm, Stphane. Un Coup de Ds... Collected Poems. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.

McDonough, Tom, ed. Guy Debord and the Situationist International, Texts and Documents. Cambridge : MIT Press, 2004.

Parker, Graham. Fair Use: Notes from Spam. London: Book Works, 2009.

Price, Seth. Dispersion. http://www.dextersinister.org/library.html?id=12

Rancire, Jacques. The Space of Words: From Mallarm ti Broodthaers. Sabine Folie, Un Coup de Ds: Writing Turned Image. An Alphabet of Pensive Language. Vienna: The Generali Foundation, 2008, pp. 202–212.

Roberts, John Selected Errors: Writing on Art and Politics 1981–1990. London : Pluto Press, 1992.

Terdiman, Richard. Newspaper Culture: Institutions of Discourse; Discourse of Institutions. Discourse/Counter-Discourse: Theory and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca : Cornell Univ. Press, 1985, pp. 117–146.

Wark, McKenzie. The Secretary. in Guy Debord. Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International. Los Angeles : Semiotext(e), 2009.

 

 

4) General

 

Bennett, Tony, Grossberg, Lawerence, Morris, Meaghan, eds. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Maiden, Mass : Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Coles, Alex. Documents of Contemporary Art: Design and Art. London/Cambridge : Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2007.

Fassi, Luigi, Gallun, Lucy and Schillinger, Jakob. Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.

Friere, Paolo. The Act of Study. http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3671/act-study

Gillick, Liam. The Semiotics of the Built Environment. The Wood Way. London : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2002.

Noble, Richard, ed. Documents of Contemporary Art: Utopia. London/Cambridge : Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2009.

5) Asger Jorn and the Imaginist Bauhaus