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Contributor(s): Series: Documents of contemporary art seriesPublisher: London : Cambridge, MA : Whitechapel Gallery ; MIT Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 237 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780854882618
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NX 456 PRA
Contents:
Introduction -- Thinking, making and doing -- Collective action -- Forms of repetition -- Discipline(s).
Summary: 'Practice' is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads. Re-framing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and index.

Introduction -- Thinking, making and doing -- Collective action -- Forms of repetition -- Discipline(s).

Introduction: The promise of practice / Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine -- THINKING, MAKING AND DOING. The baby and the milk, or proof of life, 1956 / Shiraga Kazuo -- The general nature of African art, 1956 / Léopold Sédar Senghor -- Action, 1958 / Hannah Arendt -- The concept of practice: Dialogue, 1956 / Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer -- Making a salad, 1998 / David T. Doris -- To the Wesleyan people, 1966 / Yoko Ono -- To art (reg. intrans. v.), 1975 / Adrian Piper -- What is practice?, 1975 / Louis Althusser -- The worldwide experience, 1978 / Henri Lefebvre -- Rosendale, 1980 / Raivo Puusemp -- In conversation with Kate Horsfield, 1980 / Joseph Beuys -- The structuring of the self, 1980 / Lygia Clark -- Lygia Clark and the art/clinic hybrid, 1996 / Suely Rolnik -- Poiesis and praxis, 1994 / Giorgio Agamben -- Wana-na-wang-ong, 1994 / Florene Belmore -- cloud-net, 1998 / Cecilia Vicuña -- The loneliness of the project, 2002 / Boris Groys -- From work to practice, 2010 / Andrea Phillips -- Welcome to yourspace, 2013 / Lane Relyea -- Van Gogh on demand, 2013 / Winnie Won Yin Wong --; COLLECTIVE ACTION. Theses on Feuerbach, 1845 / Karl Marx -- Art in the revolution and the revolution in art, 1923 / Sergei Tret'iakov -- Surrealism: The last snapshot of the European intelligentsia, 1929 / Walter Benjamin -- On national culture, 1959 / Frantz Fanon -- Questionnaire, 1964 / The Situationist International -- A magic rite to exorcize the spirits of murder, violence & creephood from the Pentagon, 1967 / Ed Sanders -- Argentine subversive art, 1970 / Pablo Suárez and Commission of Artistic Action of the Argentine CGT -- On Black art, 1970 / Maulana Karenga -- Art as form of reality, 1969 / Herbert Marcuse -- Womanhouse, 1972 / Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro -- A proposal for learning to get things off our chests: Behaviour, discipline and our project, 1980 / Tim Rollins -- Picture a coalition, 1987 / Gregg Bordowitz -- The production of social space as artwork, 2007 / Okwui Enwezor -- The institutionalization of friendship, 1998 / Viktor Misiano -- 16Beavergroup, 2004 / Ayreen Anastas -- Collectivism now, 2007 / Blake Stimson and Greg Sholette -- We need a popular discipline: In conversation with Filippo Del Lucchese and Jason Smith, 2007 / Alain Badiou -- Ecoaesthetics: Art beyond art, 2008 / Rasheed Araeen -- When the world spirit touches you, don't think you can walk away unscathed, 2013 / Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -- Embedded: In conversation with Jacqueline Stewart, 2014 / Theaster Gates -- Michael Brown, 2015 / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney --; FORMS OF REPETITION. Techniques of the body, 1934 / Marcel Mauss -- Duchamp's chess games, 1969 / Guido Cappello -- Professional rules, 1997 / Robert Morris -- Philosophical investigations, 1953 / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Practising Trio A, 2012 / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Sonic meditations, 1974 / Pauline Oliveros -- In conversation with Terry Smith, 1995 / Mary Kelly -- Art as therapy, 1977/2000 / Linda M. Montano -- Belief and the body, 1980 / Pierre Bourdieu -- The tactics of practice, 1980 / Michael de Certeau -- Train as book: On Rammellzee, 1983 / Edit deAk -- Body assemblage: In conversation with Félix Guattari, 1985 / Min Tanaka -- From parody to politics, 1990 / Judith Butler -- Redressing the pained body: Towards a theory of practice, 1997 / Saidiya Hartman -- Architectural body, 2002 / Madeline Gins and Arakawa -- Saint Sebastian (Works in progress), 2001 / Fiona Tan -- Exercises and misexercises: The critique of repetition, 2009 / Peter Sloterdijk -- Becoming T, 2008 / Paul B. Preciado -- An ecology of practices, 2005 / Isabelle Stengers -- Tjanpi desert weavers, 2016 / Jennifer Biddle -- Political plastic, 2016 / Eyal Weizman --; DISCIPLINE(S). The secret of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1916 / Mohandas Gandhi -- Programme (Relative to Acéphale), 1936 / Georges Bataille -- Decreation, 1947 / Simone Weil -- Miserable miracle, 1955 / Henri Michaux -- Manifesto - Auto-destructive art, 1960 / Gustav Metzger -- Remembering Yoko Ono's Cut Piece, 2003 / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Notes, 1964-66 / Gerhard Richter -- Practice, 1974 / Julia Kristeva -- Rhythm 2, 1974 / Marina Abramovic -- In conversation with Thomas McEvilley, 1998 / Marina Abramovic -- In conversation with Adrian Heathfield, 2009 / Tehching Hsieh -- On collaboration with Joseph Beuys: In conversation with Louwrien Wijers, 1982 / The Dalai Lama -- Shamanism, 1987 / Michael Taussig -- The ethics of the concern for the self: In conversation with Concordia, 1984 / Michel Foucault -- Prosthetics, robotics and remote existence: Post-evolutionary strategies, 1991 / Stelarc -- As long as I'm walking, 1992 / Francis Alÿs -- Against ordinary language, 1992 / Kathy Acker -- Difficulty's audience, 2013 / Jennifer Doyle -- Politics of piety, 2005 / Saba Mahmood -- On intuition, 2006 / Carolee Schneemann -- Figuration and failure, pedagogy and performance: Reflections three years later, 2011 / Aliza Shvarts -- In conversation with Vincent Simon, 2012 / AA Bronson -- Sex without optimism, 2014 / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman - Art of the stateless state, 2014 / Jonas Staal -- Kader Attia - A glissantian reading, 2014 / Manthia Diawara.

'Practice' is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads. Re-framing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art.

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