Main entry:

Relyea, Lane, 1960-

Title & Author:

Your everyday art world / Lane Relyea.

Publication:

©2013
Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2013]

Description:

xvii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.
Welcome to Yourspace -- Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, Cologne -- Ruins.
1. Welcome to Yourspace -- Networks, Databases, Platforms, and Projects -- Reading Neo-avant-garde History in Terms of Networks and DIY -- How to Start Your Own Country -- 2. Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York, Cologne -- A Context of One's Own -- Everyday Life -- The Middle Drops Out -- Potemkin Villages -- Anti-hub, or Cultural Welfare as We Knew It -- Exhibiting Sociality, or How the Social Life of Contracting Free Agents Emerges as Art's New Institutional Frame -- Trust -- Mute -- Coda: Where Do Social Networks Come From? -- 3. Ruins -- Tear Down -- Criticism and Database -- Between Aftermath and Aftermarket.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Over the past twenty years, the network has come to dominate the art world, affecting not just interaction among art professionals but the very makeup of the art object itself. The hierarchical and restrictive structure of the museum has been replaced by temporary projects scattered across the globe, staffed by free agents hired on short-term contracts, viewed by spectators defined by their predisposition to participate and make connections. In this book, Lane Relyea tries to make sense of these changes, describing a general organizational shift in the artworld that affects not only material infrastructures but also conceptual categories and the construction of meaning. Examining art practice, exhibition strategies, art criticism, and graduate education, Relyea aligns the transformation of the art world with the advent of globalization and the neoliberal economy. He analyzes the new networked, participatory art world -- hailed by some as inherently democratic -- in terms of the pressures of part-time temp work in a service economy, the calculated stockpiling of business contacts, and the anxious duty of being a "team player" at work. Relyea calls attention to certain networked forms of art -- including relational aesthetics, multiple or fictive artist identities, and bricolaged objects -- that can be seen to oppose the values of neoliberalism rather than romanticizing and idealizing them. Relyea offers a powerful answer to the claim that the interlocking functions of the network -- each act of communicating, of connecting, or practice -- are without political content.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780262019231 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
026201923X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art and society History 20th century.
Art and society History 21st century.
Art et société Histoire 20e siècle.
Art et société Histoire 21e siècle.
20.10 art and society: general.
Art and Design.
Art and society.
Gesellschaft
Globalisierung
Kunstsoziologie
Neoliberalismus
World Wide Web 2.0
Art Social aspects.
Art and the Internet.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284851
Call No.: BIB 224083
Status: Available