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E-flux journalMoscow Symposium – Conceptualism Revisited

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Revisiting conceptual art: the Russian case in an international context.
Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of life—not only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. Could it be that the Moscow Conceptualists were so elusive or saturated with the particularities of life in a specific economic and intellectual culture that they precluded integration into a broader art historical narrative? If so, then their simultaneously modest and radical approach to form may present a key to understanding the resilience and flexibility of a more general sphere of global conceptualisms that anticipate, surpass, or even bend around their purported origins in canonical European and American regimes of representation, as well as what we currently understand to be the horizon of artistic practice.
Publication based on the conference ‘Revisiting Conceptual Art: The Russian Case in an International Context,' which took place in Moscow in April 2011, organized by Boris Groys and Stella Art Foundation.
Edited by Boris Groys.
Introduction by Boris Groys, essays by Claire Bishop, Keti Chukhrov, Ekaterina Degot, Jörg Heiser, Terry Smith, Anton Vidokle, Sarah Wilson.

Graphic design by Jeff Ramsey, cover design by Liam Gillick.
 
published in September 2012
English edition
10,8 x 17,8 cm (softcover)
176 pages (11 b/w ill.)
 
12.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-943365-11-5
EAN : 9783943365115
 
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