Art Journal articles from June 2000

Art Journal archives from June 2000

In This Issue/Presence.
June 22, 2000... This is a curious moment in our culture. Recent media images of police in riot gear doing battle with demonstrators at the gates of international corporate power in the streets of Seattle and Washington, D.C., are resonant of sixties activism...

Flux Generations.
June 22, 2000... This intergenerational conversation between Fluxus artists and their children was held on November 6, 1999, on the occasion of a concert/performance memorial for the late Fluxus artist Dick Higgins at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New...

The Anti-Historicist Approach: Brancusi, "Our Contemporary".(Constantin Brancusi)
June 22, 2000... Hal Foster notes that postwar culture in the United States and Western Europe is informed "by neos and posts." Beginning in the early 1960s, numerous artists have consistently engaged in the recovery of prewar avant-garde practices. Often...

Doppelgangers and the Third Force: The Artistic Collaborations of Gilbert & George and Marina Abramovic/Ulay.
June 22, 2000... Missing in Action Gilbert & George's and Marina Abramovic/Ulay's actions of the 1970s were collaborations that blurred and doubled the "normal" figure of the artist as an individual body. This type of collaboration had the properties of...

The Video Public Sphere.
June 22, 2000... The personal is political. Since the 1960s this phrase has been a rallying cry for social movements founded in identity. It is a creed in which progressive demands emerge from the specific social (and sometimes biological) experiences of a...

These Are My Intentions.
June 22, 2000... Marshall McLuhan's now canonical statement, "the medium is the message," is both a prophetic and chilling description of the transformation now underway in many branches of popular music, in which temporal continuity and forward movement are...

Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics, and the Art of Meaning.
June 22, 2000... We look for the creation of a nonhuman type in whom moral suffering, goodness of heart, affection, and love, those sale corrosive poisons of inexhaustible vital energy, sole interrupters of our powerful bodily electricity, will be...

The Culture of a Border Within: Hong Kong Art and China.
June 22, 2000... Within the space of only a few years there has been an extraordinary increase in awareness of contemporary Chinese art in Europe and North America. Because of exhibitions such as the Asia Society and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's...

Going Virtual.
June 22, 2000... Illustration: Still from Premiere (1972) I am dramatizing the performance aspect of human behavior by reading a script in front of this video monitor. Individuals play at being themselves in order to realize themselves, so in a sense, all...

A World on Fire.(annual Burning Man event)
June 22, 2000... Welcome to hell. It's wedged into a forgotten corner of the Great Basin, not far from oozing nuclear waste dumps and military target ranges. A stark and unforgiving site, the Black Rock Desert affords a unique sensation of unbounded space,...

Close Reading and Looking: Some Recent Books by James Elkins.(Review)
June 22, 2000... James Elkins. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing. New York: Harvest Books, 1996. 271 pp., 63 b/w ills. $13 paper James Elkins. On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 326 pp., 54,...

That Old White Magic.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Jodi Hauptman. Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 240 pp., 36 color ills., 72 b/w. $40. The actress Hedy Lamarr died on January 19, 1999, at the age of eight-six. The photograph featured in...

The Work of Art as Criticism.(Review)
June 22, 2000... Dan Graham. Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art, edited by Alexander Alberro. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. 198 pp., 48 ills., $18.95 paper. Dan Graham's writings about his own works are the focus of a...