Rirkrit Tiravanija
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Is it still possible today to call for the fulfillment of the historical avant-gardist objective to integrate art and life? This paper, partly grounded in Peter Bürger's seminal Theory of the Avant-Garde, considers the question by turning... more
Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the hegemony of Western aesthetics in the global arena of contemporary art and argues for a pluralization of art languages. It draws attention to the contemporary art's disavowal of ethnic arts,... more
A short essay using Plato's theory of Mimesis to examine how far removed viewers are from the artist's statement in a few key examples; focusing on the still life and participatory art events.
Öz Nicolas Bourriaud tarafından ilk kez 1996'da kullanılan 'İlişkisel Estetik' adlandırması, 1998'de yine Bourriaud tarafından aynı adla kitaplaştırılarak, dünya sanat literatürüne kalıcı olarak dâhil olmuştur. İzleyiciyi pasif konumda... more
Viewers of contemporary art are often invited to involve themselves actively in artworks, by entering installations, touching objects, performing instructions or clicking on interactive websites. Why have artists sought to engage... more
Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping - “parallel presents” - Huyghe... more
Mediengebrauch ist heute nicht mehr an einzelne Künste gebunden, sondern an Kunstaktivitäten. Dieser Entgrenzung versuchte man auf theoretischer wie kunstpraktischer Ebene entgegenzusteuern, indem einzelne Medien und Dispositive zu neuen... more
Could Joseph Beuys Be a Socially Engaged Artist Today? - catalogue article (2015)
After the crisis of the utopian ideals that was linked to the postmodern discourse, it seemed that utopia had ceased to be a useful concept for the art world. This paper addresses the return of the word after the “Utopia Station”... more
This chapter emerged from my curatorial research on contemporary video practices in Southeast Asia. I analyse some short, independently made film and video works, each of which deals with minor (and/or obsolete) languages, and marginal... more
Mediengebrauch ist heute nicht mehr an einzelne Künste gebunden, sondern an Kunstaktivitäten. Dieser Entgrenzung versuchte man auf theoretischer wie kunstpraktischer Ebene entgegenzusteuern, indem einzelne Medien und Dispositive zu neuen... more
In the New Testament the early Christians adopted the notion of absolute, creative and excessive love—agape—as a comprehensive fatherly love that God possesses for mankind, which as a consequence extends to a love of one’s fellow man.... more
This chapter emerged from my curatorial research on contemporary video practices in Southeast Asia. I analyse some short, independently made film and video works, each of which deals with minor (and/or obsolete) languages, and marginal... more