Institutional Critique is going to find this moment (as idiot psuedo-journalists frame the conversation superficially analyzing irrelevant public sales, auction data of this young artist or that one selling for a lot of money) and frame it properly within the context of the current paradigm of the epoch in which we live. David Joselit’s new book ‘After Art’ offers an analysis of our present as a moment of intensified interconnectivity and image-traffic. While informational, social and economic networks grow in size and density, images circulate through them and behave like a kind of currency. Joselit makes the case that artistic practice needs to change accordingly, and he suggests that this involves questioning a set of pieties that rule the production and criticism of art. Instead of clinging to concepts such as ‘the medium’ or ‘postmediality’, thinking of artworks as ‘objects’, and continuing to play the games of institutional critique, he argues that art should capitalize on its new power of projecting visibility to a heretofore unknown degree. Once works and images embrace this condition after art, Joselit suggests, they can travel fast and far, and have the potential for becoming sites for the emergence of new aesthetic, social and political circuits.pro-qm.de/david-joselit-after-art#.U4a0zqd0HnM.facebook
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 05:08:10 +0000
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