Postproduction
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Since the early nineties, an ever increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interprete, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products. This art of postproduction seems to repond to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age, which is characterized by an(...)
Postproduction
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Since the early nineties, an ever increasing number of artworks have been created on the basis of preexisting works; more and more artists interprete, reproduce, re-exhibit, or use works made by others or available cultural products. This art of postproduction seems to repond to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age, which is characterized by an increase in the supply of works and the art world's annexation of forms ignored or disdained until now.
Art Theory
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà(...)
Nicolas Bourriaud postproduction
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La présente collection prolonge l'activité éditoriale de la revue Documents sur l'art, fondée en 1992. Elle rassemble textes et entretiens avec les acteurs du champ artistique actuel: critiques, artistes, commissaires, collectionneurs... Les artistes actuels évoluent dans un univers de produits en vente, de formes préexistantes, de signaux déjà émis, de bâtiments déjà construits, d’itinéraires balisés par leurs devanciers. Ils ou elles ne considèrent plus le champ artistique comme un musée contenant des œuvres qu’il faudrait citer ou "dépasser", ainsi que le voudrait l’idéologie moderniste du nouveau, mais comme autant de magasins remplis d’outils à utiliser, de stocks de données à manipuler, à rejouer et à mettre en scène. Version française de Postproduction, parue en anglais en 2001.
Art Theory
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Moments spent in elevators, check-ins at airports, subway rides-these are all examples of the kind of "in-between" time that fascinates Walead Beshty and supplies material for his photographs. "In-between time" applies to civic space, too-depopulated modernist housing developments that sit precariously between evacuation and demolition, plants, weeds and vegetation on(...)
Walead Beshty: natural histories
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Moments spent in elevators, check-ins at airports, subway rides-these are all examples of the kind of "in-between" time that fascinates Walead Beshty and supplies material for his photographs. "In-between time" applies to civic space, too-depopulated modernist housing developments that sit precariously between evacuation and demolition, plants, weeds and vegetation on isolated highway medians, or abandoned shopping malls. More recently, Beshty's adventures in "the in-between" have become a means of production, as he makes creative use of such mundane procedures as air travel or sending a package. This monograph presents a ten-year overview of Walead Beshty's approach to photographic and sculptural representation, and contains newly commissioned essays by Suzanne Hudson and Nicolas Bourriaud, as well as a conversation between Bob Nickas and Beshty.
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Relational aesthetics
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Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an(...)
Relational aesthetics
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Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
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January 1998
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Jules de Balincourt: Malpais
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The noted Paris-born, Brooklyn-based painter Jules de Balincourt depicts a universe in which abstract and representational images collide, orbit and satellite among each other, creating a kind of loose, free-associating, non-linear narrative, according to the artist himself. This volume collects recent works exhibited at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.
Jules de Balincourt: Malpais
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The noted Paris-born, Brooklyn-based painter Jules de Balincourt depicts a universe in which abstract and representational images collide, orbit and satellite among each other, creating a kind of loose, free-associating, non-linear narrative, according to the artist himself. This volume collects recent works exhibited at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris.
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The exform
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Theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions(...)
The exform
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Theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A “realist” theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded.
Critical Theory
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By changing our collective relationship with the planet, global warming has transformed the artist’s gaze. Curator Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from around the world to question the contemporaneity of the Romantic concept of the sublime in the age of the Anthropocene. Today, the sublime, grounded in the connection between humans and nature, takes a new turn, defined(...)
April 2022
Planet B: Climate change and the new sublime
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By changing our collective relationship with the planet, global warming has transformed the artist’s gaze. Curator Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from around the world to question the contemporaneity of the Romantic concept of the sublime in the age of the Anthropocene. Today, the sublime, grounded in the connection between humans and nature, takes a new turn, defined as a feeling of ''delight tinged with horror''. The contrast between the individual and immensity thus becomes the aesthetic notion that determines our age. Bourriaud’s exhibition takes place in three acts: every exhibition is a forest; Charles Darwin and the coral reefs; and the tragic death of Nauru Island.
Inclusions
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À l'heure de l'Anthropocène, quel pourrait être le rôle de l'art? Dans une culture qui a accéléré jusqu'au délire le passage de la marchandise à l'ordure, de la valeur au déchet, il n'est désormais rien qui ne puisse prétendre s'extraire de la logique de crise affectant la totalité des habitants de la planète Terre. À la crise climatique et à la crise économique répond en(...)
Inclusions
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À l'heure de l'Anthropocène, quel pourrait être le rôle de l'art? Dans une culture qui a accéléré jusqu'au délire le passage de la marchandise à l'ordure, de la valeur au déchet, il n'est désormais rien qui ne puisse prétendre s'extraire de la logique de crise affectant la totalité des habitants de la planète Terre. À la crise climatique et à la crise économique répond en effet une crise de la culture, mêlant gaspillages, exclusions, pollutions, appropriations brutales - faisant de l'art le collaborateur de la destruction planétaire. Comment réagir à cet état des choses? Dans ce nouvel essai, urgent et passionné, Nicolas Bourriaud se fait l'avocat d'une conception nouvelle de l'art, qui prenne la mesure d'une écologie et d'une économie instituant la décroissance, la décolonisation et l'inclusion en maîtres-mots. Convoquant les plus grands créateurs de notre temps ainsi que les derniers apports de l'anthropologie, de la philosophie ou de l'esthétique, Inclusions est un vibrant plaidoyer pour une forme enfin soutenable de vie, dont l'art pourrait constituer le modèle.
Critical Theory
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Le catalogue de l'exposition-manifeste conçue par Nicolas Bourriaud, qui prend pour point de départ l'intégration de la notion d'anthropocène dans la sphère artistique actuelle : l'ouvrage explore la production d'une nouvelle génération d'artistes qui travaille le réel et annule la division traditionnelle entre les notions de culture et nature. L'édition revient en(...)
February 2018
Crash test : la révolution moléculaire
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Le catalogue de l'exposition-manifeste conçue par Nicolas Bourriaud, qui prend pour point de départ l'intégration de la notion d'anthropocène dans la sphère artistique actuelle : l'ouvrage explore la production d'une nouvelle génération d'artistes qui travaille le réel et annule la division traditionnelle entre les notions de culture et nature. L'édition revient en détails sur les œuvres exposées et propose un glossaire particulièrement éclairant.
The radicant
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First published in English. Version française va sortir en automne 2009. French edition to follow in fall 2009. “In ordinary language, ‘modernizing’ has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a modernity which, far from absurdly duplicating(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2008, New York/Berlin
The radicant
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First published in English. Version française va sortir en automne 2009. French edition to follow in fall 2009. “In ordinary language, ‘modernizing’ has come to mean reducing cultural and social reality to Western formats. And today, modernism amounts to a form of complicity with colonialism and Eurocentrism. Let us bet on a modernity which, far from absurdly duplicating that of the last century, would be specific to our epoch and would echo its own problematics: an altermodernity whose issues and features this book seeks to sketch out.”
Contemporary Art Monographs