Some text/essays exchanged over the two weeks of Anthony’s research trip in relation to Anthony’s practice and the initial proposal
Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics – Claire Bishop
An essay on ‘socially engaged art’ with the relationship between the institution and relational aesthetics.
Also see link for an interview with Bishop in light of the essay
http://www.communityarts.net/readingroom/archivefiles/2006/07/socially_engage.php
One Place After Another – Notes on Site Specificity – Miwon Kwon
One Place after Another offers a critical history of site-specific art since the late 1960s and a theoretical framework for examining the rhetoric of aesthetic vanguardism and political progressivism associated with its many permutations. Informed by urban theory, postmodernist criticism in art and architecture, and debates concerning identity politics and the public sphere, the book addresses the siting of art as more than an artistic problem. It examines site specificity as a complex cipher of the unstable relationship between location and identity in the era of late capitalism. The book addresses the work of, among others, John Ahearn, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Donald Judd, Renee Green, Suzanne Lacy, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Richard Serra, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Fred Wilson.
Air Guitar – Essays on Art and Democracy, Frivolity and Unction – Dave Hickey
Conviction, sincerity and humour in contemporary art. What would happen if art was to be considered bad, stupid and frivolous?
See review of book here
http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bkrev/hickey-lat.php
Performance, commerce and objects
