Where Art Belongs
Where Art Belongs

by Chris Kraus

Auteur(s)
Chris Kraus
Uitgever, jaar
South Pasadena : Semiotext(e), 2011
Omvang
176 p., 18 cm.
ISBN
9781584350989

Where Art Belongs describes the trend towards collectivity manifested in the visual art world during the past decade, and the small forms of resistance to digital disembodiment and the hegemony of the entertainment/media/culture industry. For all its faults, Kraus argues, the art world remains the last frontier for the desire to live differently. In this book Chris Kraus examines the uses of boredom, poetry, privatized prisons, community art, corporate philanthropy, vertically integrated manufacturing, and discarded utopias, revealing the surprising persistence of microcultures within the matrix. Chronicling the sometimes doomed but persistently heroic efforts of small groups of artists to reclaim public space and time,