ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
FREE AND OPEN DISCUSSION FOR POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT IN ART (CLICK TO EXPAND)
MARCH 10TH 2023, 25 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
this document was materialized from the AI transcript of the 1st Free & Open event (previously posted). the artificial intelligence could not capture the combined speech and thought of 25 people at a time, rendering the documentation into a ramble. this documentation was purposeful in bringing the content out of the performance space (even if it is 80% nonsense), and for future use in continuing projects.
READINGS
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/art-after-liberalism/9781941332689
Art after Liberalism
Nicholas Gamso
https://www.nicholas-gamso.com/
Art after Liberalism is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging social crises. It is also an inquiry into emergent ways of living, acting, and making art in the company of others.
The essays in this book attempt to register these connections by following itinerant artists, artworks, and art publics as they move across comparative political environments. The book thus provides a range of speculations about art and social experience after liberal modernity.
Protest: The Aesthetics of Resistance
https://www.harvard.com/book/protest_the_aesthetics_of_resistance/
Masterfully and creatively drawing on contemporary signs and symbols, subverting and transforming them to engender new aesthetics and meanings, the legendary moments of 20th-century protest opened up spaces that eluded control. Irony, subversion and provocation pricked small but palpable pinholes in the controlling systems of rule. Protest takes a wide-ranging approach to the practice of protest, bringing together contributors from different disciplines and from around the globe. Social, historical, sociological and political-scientific perspectives play as much of a role in this publication as approaches that draw on image theory, popular culture, cultural studies and the arts.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1662-art-in-the-after-culture
Art In The After-Culture
Ben Davis
In these incisive essays, art critic Ben Davis makes sense of our extreme present as an emerging "after-culture"—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future.
World Records: Volume 4: In The Presence of Others
https://worldrecordsjournal.org/category/volume-4/
Nicholas Gamso & Jason Fox
How can Arendt’s writings help us rethink the role of documentary in visualizing and producing common worlds?
https://www.abebooks.com/9780262633512/Joseph-Beuys-Reader-Press-0262633515/plp
Joseph Beuys: The Reader
Claudia Mesch, Viola Michely, Arthur C. Danto
This reader brings together the crucial writings on Beuys and his work, presenting key essays by prominent artists and critics from North America and Europe. With a foreword by Arthur C. Danto, “Style and Salvation in the Art of Beuys,” Benjamin H. D. Buchloh's now classic 1980 essay, “Beuys, Twilight of the Idol,” and influential texts by Vera Frenkel, Thierry de Duve, Rosalind Krauss, Peter Bürger, Irit Rogoff, and others, Joseph Beuys: The Reader is the most significant gathering of critical texts on this challenging artist that has ever been assembled.
