Materiality / edited by Petra Lange-Berndt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lange-Berndt, Petra, editor.

Series:

Documents of contemporary art series

Documents of contemporary art

Standardized Title:

Materiality (M.I.T. Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Themes, motives.

Art, Modern--21st century--Themes, motives.

Artists' materials.

Art, Modern--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

239 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter--considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity--and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship through the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning, for example, of hair in David Hammons's installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth, or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, we need a very different set of methodological tools. This anthology focuses on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes, entangling their audience in a web of connections. It investigates the role of materiality in art that attempts to expand notions of time, space, process, or participation. And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with social norms, emerging as impure formations and messy, unstable substances. It reexamines the notion of "dematerialization"; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject and phobic; explores the vitality of substances; and addresses the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation." -- Publisher's description.

Artists surveyed include: Georges Adéagbo, Carl Andre, Janine Antoni, Amy Balkin, Artur Barrio, Helen Chadwick, Mel Chin, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Tessa Farmer, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Romuald Hazoumè, Pierre Huyghe, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Anthony McCall, Teresa Margolles, Robert Morris, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tino Sehgal, Shozo Shimamoto, Santiago Sierra, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Paul Thek, Paul Vanouse, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Kara Walker.

Contents:

Introduction : How to be complicit with materials / Petra Lange-Berndt

FOLLOW THE MATERIALS. Material / Monika Wagner

In conversation with James Putnam / Antony Gormely

Gutai Manifesto / Jiro Yoshihara

Wood: Figuring problems of material / Wolfgang Kemp

A thousand plateaux / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guttari

The order of material: Plasticities, malaises, survivals / Georges Didi-Huberman

'Truth' and 'Truth to materials' / Susan Hiller

In conversation with Kara Rooney / Kara Walker

THE LIVING FIRE OF LABOUR. Volatile, liquid, crystal / Esther Leslie

Theory of the curse of the brush / Shozo Shimamoto

Indifference of material in the work of Carl Andre and Robert Smithson / Dominic Rahtz

Manifesto / Artur Barrio

Theory of artistic work / Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm

The alchemist's workshop / Pennina Barnett

House in mud / Hilke Wagner

Knitting for good! / Betsy Greer

Statement / Romuald Hazoumè

Chromophobic activism / Natasha Eaton

FORMLESS BLOBS AND TRASH FLOWS. Formless / Georges Bataille

The poetics of softness / Max Kozloff

Anti form / Robert Morris

Plasticity: An art history of the mutable / Dietmar Rübel

Michelangelo Pistoletto / Germano Celant

On the aesthetics of ufology / Mike Kelley

Junk: Art and the politics of trash / Gillian Whiteley

On garbage: in conversation with Boris Groys / Ilya Kabakov

Flow city: In conversation with Anne Doran / Mierle Laderman Ukeles

Disjecta reliquare: The Tate Thames dig / Robert Williams

Fetishism/Hoarding/Entropy / Nicolás Guagnini

BODIES THAT MATTER. Bodies that matter / Judith Butler

Beneath the skin: In conversation with Gene Swenson / Paul Thek

Powers of horror / Julia Kristeva

Aspects of feminist actionism / VALIE EXPORT

The phobic object / Simon Taylor

A purpose in liquidity / Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton

Parts and whole: On Janine Antoni's Gnaw / Dan Cameron

Strange fruit / Ann Temkin

Interior structures / Ian Hunt

Teresa Margolles: Primordial substances / Pascal Beausse

The body: A material amongst other usable, questionable materials / ORLAN

Counter laboratories, inverted suspects and latent signs / Paul Vanouse

NATURE AND NATURE. The thing / Elizabeth Grosz

A sedimentation of the mind: Earth projects / Robert Smithson

In conversation with Craig Adcock / Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison

The periodic table / Primo Levi

Statement / Mel Chin

in memory of the scottish forest / herman de vries

Between the furniture and the building (Between a rock and a hard place) / Jimmie Durham

Hans Haacke's earth samples for the Bundestag / Monika Wagner

Making and weaving the world / Tim Ingold

Atmospheric monument: In conversation with Ana Teixeira Pinto / Amy Balkin

REMATERIALIZATION OF THE VOID. Blue Company, or Yves Klein reconsidered as world economy / Nicolas Bourriaud

Plastic / Roland Barthes

Foams / Dan Graham

The demateriali-zation of art / Lucy R. Lippard and John Chandler

Ideas come out of objects: In conversation with Matthieu Copeland / Robert Barry

Six years... / Lucy R. Lippard

After modern sculpture / Richard J. Williams

The scatter: Sculpture as leftover / Briony Fer

Line describing a cone and related films / Anthony McCall

Dust: A history of the small and the invisible / Joseph A. Amato

Blotting out architecture? : A fable in seven parts / Hubert Damisch

In conversation with Tim Griffin / Tino Sehgal

MATERIALITIES OF MEDIA. Understanding media / Marshall McLuhan

7360 Sukiyaki / Tony Conrad

Les Immatériaux / Jean-François Lyotard

Dematerialization / Christine Buci-Glucksmann

Dematerialization, matériau, matériel / Jacques Derrida

Form and material / Vilém Flusser

Zeros + Ones : Digital women + the new technoculture / Sadie Plant

Meeting the universe halfway / Karen Barad

Who's afraid of the in-between? / Jens Hauser

The materiality of impermanence / Kristine Marx

In conversation with Francesco Manacorda / Simon Starling

Uncreative writing / Kenneth Goldsmith

The aesthetics of production / Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262528092

0262528096

9780854882373

0854882375

OCLC:

907061178