Art as demonstration : a revolutionary recasting of knowledge /
Demonstration, in short, says see here. It is the practice of pointing to something in order to explain or contest it. As such, Sven Spieker argues that demonstration has helped reshape art from the height of the Cold War to the late twentieth century, reformatting our understanding of how art and p...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Art-as-demonstration in the 1960s and beyond
- Ostentatious neutrality (Bernar Venet, Daniel Buren, Adrian Piper)
- Burlesque lecture demonstration (Robert Morris, Walter Benjamin)
- Film as operation (Harun Farocki, Paweł Kwiek)
- Taking to the street : Eastern European art demonstrations (Milan Knížák, Jiří Kovanda, Endre Tót, Mladen Miljanović, Ciprian Homorodean)
- Learning from the situation (Ulrike Meinhof, Clemens von Wedemeyer)
- Instructions for seeing (Bazon Brock, Włodzimierz Borowski)
- Teaching what does not exist (Gnezdo, Ilya Kabakov)
- Demonstration in Soviet and post-Soviet space (Extra-Governmental Control Commission, Radek Community, Chto Delat
- Postscript: The migrant's hands : between demonstration and archive in Sylvain George's Qu'ils reposent en révolte (Des figures de guerre).