- grupa o.k. is Julian Myers and Joanna Szupinska. Initiated as a surprisingly popular Tumblr site in 2011, grupa o.k. has since produced projects or events for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland. Their practice also includes critical writ... moregrupa o.k. is Julian Myers and Joanna Szupinska. Initiated as a surprisingly popular Tumblr site in 2011, grupa o.k. has since produced projects or events for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland. Their practice also includes critical writing — most recently "The Prehistory of the History of Exhibitions" and an essay-length review considering the Getty Research Institutions exhibitions and books on the curator Harald Szeemann (2019). Plug In ICA, Winnipeg will publish grupa o.k.'s image history of stages, titled Stagelessness, in 2019.edit
An essay-review of Harald Szeemann exhibitions and publications in 2018.
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An annotated bibliography on the history of exhibitions before 1990.
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A consideration of reproduction centered on the artist Rodney McMillian.
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"Bachelor Modernism" reconstructs the 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art Arranged by the Société Anonyme, a modernist exhibiting society led by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp. Among other things, this exhibition was the only... more
"Bachelor Modernism" reconstructs the 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art Arranged by the Société Anonyme, a modernist exhibiting society led by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp. Among other things, this exhibition was the only public display of Duchamp's Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) in its original state before shattering. The essay argues that the exhibition embodied a critical tension between Dreier's milennarian vision of an internationalist and cosmic modernism, and Duchamp's premonition of a "bachelor modernism" mired in perpetual churn and failure.