Joshua Decter
Preface as Future Anterior
John Miller
Introduction
Chapter I
Institutional Critique® and its Discontents
Michael Asher,
Untitled
Silvia Kolbowski,
Enlarged from the Catalogue: The United States of America
The Museological Bind: Desire, Displaced
An Interview with
Andrea Fraser
Decoding the Museum
Daniel Buren,
To Transform
Renée Green: Re-Mapping Narratives of History and Identity
The Context Has Always Been There
Museums, Identity, Race, Permissions, and Other Institutional Questions: Thelma Golden Talks with Joshua Decter
Stephen Prina,
Dom-Hotel, Zimmer 101, Köln, 1994
Unmistakably Art, Anything But Art:
Zobernig's Subversive Doubt
Chapter II
Aporia (Art as Politics, the Politics of Art)
Peter Halley (vis-à-vis Baudrillard)
The Administration of Cultural Resistance
Stupidity as Destiny: American Idiot Culture as Radical Chic
Liam Gillick,
The State Itself Becomes a Super Whatnot
Superflex,
Flooded McDonald's
Emily Jacir,
Dispatch
Yael Bartana: An Aesthetics of Restorative Justice Deployed into the Space of Quotidian Injustice
Art and Fictitious Capital
Alfredo Jaar,
The Sound of Silence
Sam Durant,
Dead Labor Day
Jill Magid,
A Reasonable Man in a Box
(The) Everywhereness (of Art)
Harun Farocki,
Images of War (at a Distance)
Chapter III
Everything Is Social (Platforms, Participations, Publics, Constituencies, Networks, Spaces, Sites, Situations, Collaborations, Cooperations, Conflicts, Interventions … )
Mark Dion's Critical Interface: The Newspaper and Cultural Production
Elastic Realities:
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lincoln Tobier, Grennan & Sperandio
Prime Time: At the Nexus of Contemporary Art and Mainstream Television
event@
rockenschaub.com/inflect/social mappings/
The Practice of Cultural Renewal: Project Row Houses
Transitory Agencies and Situational Engagements: The Artist as Public Interlocutor?
Rirkrit Tiravanija,
Fear Eats the Soul
Paul Ramírez Jonas,
The Commons
Chapter IV
Convoluted Cities
On Krzysztof Wodiczko's
New York City Tableaux:
Tompkins Square, and the Context of New York's East Village
The Fractious Hybrid State (of Things)
Mesa Vanguardism and SoHo Alterations
Communication City
A Strangely New New York: From Viewing Platform at WTC/Ground Zero to Prada Epicenter Store
Marjetica Potrč,
Future Talk Now: The Great Republic of New Orleans
Michael Cataldi and Nils Norman,
The University of Trash
Chapter V
The (Un)De-definition of Art
Donald Judd (vis-à-vis Wollheim and Baudrillard)
Interview with
General Idea, Conducted in Los Angeles and New York, 1991
The Theatrics of Dissemination: A
General Idea Model
Andrea Zittel,
Prototypes
Stephen Prina and
Mike Kelley in Discussion with Joshua Decter
The Dance Floor in the Gallery:
Piotr Uklanski's
Untitled (Dance Floor)
The Sailboat in the Museum:
Jorge Pardo's
Untitled
Negotiating Convivial Dispersals
The
Bonvicini Factor
Chapter VI
What Do We Want from Exhibitions?
The Desire for documenta
Back to Babel:
Project Unité, Firminy
On the Proliferation of Curatorial Programs, Biennials, and Institutional Bureaucracies
Biennial in Your Brain: California Might Not Be (T)here with 2012 (Post)Postscript
Art and the Cultural Contradictions of Urban Regeneration, Social Justice, and Sustainability: Transforma Projects and Prospect.1 in
Post-Katrina New Orleans
(Questioning) Serbia: Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter VII
On the Curatorial Road
Don't Look Now
Screen
Cathode Ray Clinic #1
a/drift
Transmute
Tele[visions]
Dark Places: A Phantasmagoria of Simultaneous, Multiple, Looped Curatorial Scripts
List of Illustrations
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