Title & Author:

The anti-museum : an anthology / by Mathieu Copeland and Balthazar Lovay ; authors & contributors, Guillaume Apollinaire [and many others] ; translation, Thomas Butler [and nine others].

Publication:

Fribourg, Switzerland : Fri Art ; London : Koenig Books, [2017]
©2017

Description:

780 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Title page on page 33.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "A retrospective of closed exhibitions" held at Fri Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, August 6 - November 19, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
A retrospective of closed exhibitions (1964-2016) / Mathieu Copeland -- Hi Red Center: Great panorama exhibition (aka Closing event), Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, 1964 : Hi Red Center, Great panorama exhibition / Reiko Tomii ; A can of the universe / Akasegawa Genpei -- Matsuzawa Yutaka: Ah, nil, ah, a ceremony of Psi's secret embodiment drowning in the wilderness: Prototype exhibition, Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, 1964 : Matsuzawa Yutaka, Ah, nil, ah, a ceremony of Psi's secret embodiment drowning in the wilderness: Prototype exhibition / Reiko Tomii -- Graciela Carnevale: Untitled, Ciclo de Art Experimental, Rosario, 1968 : Graciela Carnevale, 7 to 19 October / Graciela Carnevale ; Graciela Carnevale in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- Daniel Buren: Papiers collés blanc et vert, Apollinaire Gallery, Milan, 1968 : Daniel Buren in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- Robert Barry: During the exhibition the gallery will be closed, Art & Project, Amsterdam, 1969; For the exhibition the gallery will be closed, Sperone Gallery, Torino, 1969; March 10 through March 21 the gallery will be closed, Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, 1970 : Robert Barry in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- Lefevre Jean Claude: Une exposition de Lefevre Jean Claude à la galerie Yvon Lambert entre le 11 juillet et le 31 août 1981, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, 1981 : Lefevre Jean Claude in conversation with Mathieu Copeland ; An exhibition by Lefevre Jean Claude at the Yvon Lambert Gallery from 11 July to 31 August 1981 / Michel Gauthier -- Maurizio Cattelan: Torno subito, Neon Gallery, Bologna, 1989 -- Swetlana Heger & Plamen Dejanov: Galerie wegen Urlaub geschlossen [Gallery closed for holidays], Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, Berlin, 1999 : Plamen Dejanov in conversation with Mathieu Copeland ; Swetlana Heger in conversation with Mathieu Copeland.
Santiago Sierra: Space closed by corrugated metal, Lisson Gallery, London, 2002 -- Rirkrit Tiravanija: Nomadic residents: Rirkrit Tiravanija, OCAD Professional Gallery, Ontario College of Art and Design, 2007 : Nomadic residents: Rirkrit Tiravanija, OCAD Professional Gallery / Jim Drobnick -- Maria Eichhorn: 5 weeks, 25 days, 175 hours, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2016 : Maria Eichhorn in conversation with Katie Guggenheim -- Geijustsu on their minds: memorable words on anti-art / Reiko Tomii -- The Mighty Grimoire of Mystic Spells, Rituals and Incantations that deploy dialectical immaterialism to transform the bad energy of white male guilt into a magical tool to make anti-art disappear and the world a more sisterly place! Translated from the French by Paschal Beverly Randolph and retrieved from the future by Stewart Home. Originally published by Beringos Fratres of Lyon at The Sign of Agrippa in 2262 / Stewart Home -- Henry Flynt in conversation with Mathieu Copland (part 1) -- Henry Flynt in conversation with Mathieu Copeland (part 2) -- 1962-63: Razing the institutions? / Henry Flynt -- M.D. -- Rx / Robert Morris -- Jacques Villeglé in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- Claude Rutault in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- Fluxus manifesto / George Maciunas -- A manifesto reconsidered / Yvonne Rainer -- Goran Trbuljak in conversation with Andrea Bellini -- Anti-art non-art art / Dora Vallier -- Anti-anti-art / Billy Childish and Charles Thomson -- "Vulgar show introductions" / Stanley Fisher -- "Involvement" (Press release) / Stanley Fisher, Sam Goodman, Boris Lurie et al. -- March gallery artists statement on anti-art / Stanley Fisher, Sam Goodman, Boris Lurie et al. -- YES & NO THOUGHTS, process of a contribution to the issues of the past / Lil Picard -- NO-ART / Boris Lurie -- On non art / Iris Clert -- Ben Vautier in conversation with Mathieu Copeland.
Against art by other means: Goran Đorđević, 1972-1985 / Branislav Dimitrijević -- With love from the Kitchen: on the paradox of responsibilities and representation / Krist Gruijthuijsen -- Arman's "Le plein" (Full up): the key is on the inside / Déborah Laks -- "Ladies and gentlemen, the museum will close in 15 minutes" -- Ha ha ha ha! / Véronique Follet -- Generally discredited words / Storm van Helsing and Gareth James -- Closed for business, Storm van Helsing suggests that galleries shouldn't have exhibitions just because they can / Tim Griffin in conversation with Storm van Helsing -- Opening: a work in Situ / Nicolas de Oliveira and Nicola Oxley -- Anti-museums that aren't: notes on a few contradictions / Balthazar Lovay -- Museum of the Void (Castles in the sand) / Bob Nickas -- Museums in the post-industrial mass society: an argument against the metaphysics of presence and for the physics of the masses / Peter Weibel -- The anti-museum: thoughts on art cultivation / Johannes Cladders -- a Model--a museum for today and for the future / Sören Schmeling -- Art is everywhere--at my grandmother's house--in the most improbable kitsch, even under a rotten floorboard / Olivier Suter -- Manifesto 2 for a theatre of human destruction / Jean Toche -- GUERILLA ART ACTION in front of the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM of NEW YORK / Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche -- Newsweek / Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche -- MANIFESTO FOR THE GUERILLA ART ACTION GROUP / Jon Hendricks and Jean Toche -- PRESS COMMUNIQUE / Jon Kendricks, Jean Toche -- A CALL FOR THE IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION OF ALL THE ROCKEFELLERS FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Silvianna, Jean Toche -- COMMUNIQUE / Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Silvianna, Jean Toche -- GUERRILLA ART ACTION GROUP / Jon Hendricks, Poppy Johnson, Jean Toche -- GUERILLA ART ACTION AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART / Guerrilla Art Action Group -- Rereading An anti-catalog: radical art history and the decline of the left / Alan Wallach -- The slave--a figure for the anti-museum? / Achille Mbembe -- The impossibility of anti: a theoretical consideration of Bikyōtō / Reiko Tomii -- Mierle Laderman Ukeles in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- The Museum of AMused Muses (MAMM), of the IAM (Imperium Asinum Magnificum) according to the principles of TTP (Totally Total Poetry) / Michel Giroud -- Enter the anti-space / Richard Goldstein -- From anti-design and the anti-museum to the Parco Arte Vivente / Piero Gilardi in conversation with Andrea Bellini.
Radical architecture: refusing the ordinary role / Andrea Branzi (Archizoom Associati) -- Controdesign / Ettore Sottsass -- Radical notes: the elite and mass creativity / Andrea Branzi -- Perfectly normal / Alessandro Mendini -- The notion of un-design / Alessandro Mendini -- In-vitro ideal city / Alessandro Mendini -- A museum is not a building / Yona Friedman -- The post-museum / Beatriz Colomina -- Excerpts from Technology against technology = Anti-tech / Takis -- Against the happening / Roberto Jacoby -- Contra-Internet / Zach Blas -- Verb list compilation: actions to destroy instruments / Matthieu Saladin -- Varieties of anti-music: from Antoine Delafoy's absolute anti-chord to congenital amusia / Thibault Walter -- Lydia Lunch in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- GX Jupitter-Larsen / Thibault Walter -- Correct malapropisms / GX Jupitter-Larsen -- On anti-cinema: apocope and prefix / Erik Bullot -- I see NOTHING / Fanny Schulmann -- L'antitradition futuriste / Guillaume Apollinaire -- A brief overview of anti-writing / Kenneth Goldsmith -- Anti-manga: Sasaki Maki, Ishiko Junzō, and the image / Ryan Holmberg -- Mai-Thu Perret -- THE NO TEXTS / Steven Parrino -- ART = RELIGION = CULTURE = HA-HA-HA / Jean Toche -- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge in conversation with Mathieu Copeland -- The Antiuniversity of London: an introduction to deinstitutionalisation / Jakob Jakobsen -- A short philosophical grammar of the anti-X or anti-art in question / Olivier Quintyn -- Destroying the temple: the religion of the end of religion: art of the end of art / Paulo Pires do Vale -- Buffet / Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes -- Dadaism / Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes -- Manifesto for the door: a universal exhibition / Robin Page -- Total art / Ben Vautier -- Everything is architecture / Hans Hollein -- John Armleder in conversation with Mathieu Copeland (part 1) -- John Armleder in conversation with Mathieu Copeland (part 2) -- Lessons in scandal/Historical landmarks / Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

Summary:

Since the early 1960s, artists have sealed off spaces in galleries and museums as a radical artistic gesture. These uncompromising works confront the viewer to a closed exhibition space, encouraging instead a physical, sensitive, or conceptual experience of each. These exhibitions are now re-explored at Fri Art. One after the other, they give structure to a retrospective that is written in time, as each work will successively close the exhibiton space, between August 6 and November 19, 2016. The retrospective's last day will be marked by the re-opening of the exhibition space. Festivities will include the launch of an important multidisciplinary, historical, and prospective anthology dedicated to radical artistic engagement: 'The Anti-Museum.' Exhibition: Fri Art - Centre d'art de Fribourg / Kunsthalle Freiburg, Switzerland (05.08-19.11.2016).
The Anti-museum book addresses the idea of anti-art in a broad sense, evoking attempts to disrupt rules and customs in diverse artistic disciplines. One must not forget that the notion of anti-art is set against the one that "everything is art"; they are conjoined. Both contradictory and provocative, they translate an artist's desire to challenge art with its own means. Mathieu Copeland and Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, present the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is "the anti-museum" -- a term so present in art history and yet that has never been the object of a detailed investigation and definition.-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783960980032 (hardback)
3960980035 (hardback)

Subject:

Bornholms Kunstmuseum Gudhjem
Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstausstellung
Artists and museums Exhibitions.
Art museums History Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
Artists' writings.
Artists Interviews.
Artistes et musées Expositions.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art 21e siècle Expositions.
Écrits d'artistes.
Artistes Entretiens.
Art, Modern.
Art museums.
Artists.
Artists and museums.
Ästhetik
Gegenkultur

Form/genre:

Essay
Interview
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
essays.
interviews.
Essays.
History.
Interviews.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Essais.

Added entries:

Copeland, Mathieu, editor, interviewer.
Lovay, Balthazar, editor.
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918, writer of supplementary textual content.
Copeland, Mathieu editor
Apollinaire, Guillaume, writer of supplementary texual content.
Fri-Art (Fribourg, Switzerland), host institution.
Retrospective of closed exhibitions.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295236
Call No.: BIB 241342
Status: Available