How We Behave

by Grant Watson ; contributors Frédérique Bergholtz, Leo Bersani, Paul Rabinov and Vivian Ziherl

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Author(s)

Grant Watson

Publication, year

Amsterdam : If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, 2013

Scope

64 Pages, illustrated, 27 cm.

ISBN

9789081447171

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Inspired by an interview with Michel Foucault published in Vanity Fair in 1983, entitled How We Behave, Watson’s long-term project focuses on the central question that Foucault posed in this interview – why can’t life be ‘the material for a work of art?’. The concern here is not with ‘lifestyle’ or the link between life and art, but with what Foucault considered to be an urgent question for our time – how people make their subjectivity and invent new ways of life and relations to others, as a form of resistance.

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Location

Cabinet 31 - 1: Performance ; lichaam en ruimte