"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Question the Wall Itself, curated by Fionn Meade with Jordan Carter and organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Interviews with Nabih Awada / Akram Zaatari -- Exhibition views -- Essays. The Library of Babel : Seth Siegelaub's Stagecraft of the Page / Jordan Carter ; Janette Laverriere : Evocations / Robert Wiesenberger ; Sentiments of Resistance : Three Maneuvers Ensuing a Fall / Adrienne Edwards ; Figure and Wound : The Human Body in Shahryar Nashat's Present Sore / Mason Leaver-Yap -- Artists' Pages. Nostalgia, sentimento de classe / Jonathas de Andrade ; Sensitivo / Uri Aran ; Untitled / Nina Beier ; This is not a museum of art by Douglas Crimp / Marcel Broodthaers ; The storage project/Some elements of some styles / Tom Burr ; Index (with feeling) / Alejandro Cesarco -- Correspondence with Nick Mauss / Marc Camille Chaimowicz ; Speech at Western Michigan University, 1963 by Martin Luther King Jr. / Theaster Gates ; Restless painting : Tom Burr and Fionn Meade in conversation / Ull Hohn -- Menage a trois, quatre, cinq, six... by Nairy Baghramian / Janette Laverriere/Nairy Baghramian ; Untitled / Louise Lawler ; Quivers in time and place by Nick Mauss / Nick Mauss/Florine Stettheimer ; What is collectivity, conviviality, care? / Park McArthur ; Lucy McKenzie : Manners by Mason Leaver-Yap / Lucy McKenzie ; Untitled / Shahryar Nashat ; Distracted (excerpt) by Jalal Toufic / Walid Raad ; from Bibliographica textilia historiae / Seth Siegelaub ; Walk through / Paul Sietsema ; Book drafts / Rosemarie Trockel ; L'artiste et le decorateur / Danh Vo ; Untitled / Cerith Wyn Evans ; Interviews with Nabih Awada / Akram Zaatari -- Works in the exhibition.
Summary:
Question the Wall Itself' examines ways that interior spaces and decor can be fundamental to the understanding of cultural identity. It showcases 23 international artists who explore the political and social dimensions of interior architecture as well as its complicated relationship to history and their own backgrounds. The featured artists are Jonathas de Andrade, Uri Aran, Nina Beier, Marcel Broodthaers, Tom Burr, Alejandro Cesarco, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Theaster Gates, Ull Hohn, Janette Laverriere, Louise Lawler, Nick Mauss, Park McArthur, Lucy McKenzie, Shahryar Nashat, Walid Raad, Seth Siegelaub, Paul Sietsema, Florine Stettheimer, Rosemarie Trockel, Cerith Wyn Evans, Danh Vo and Akram Zaatari. The book and the exhibition it accompanies take as its guiding principle what Marcel Broodthaers termed 'esprit decor': a critique of ideas of nationality, globalization and the space of the institution through constructed interior scenes. Recasting our conception of interior space and design, the featured works exist between art, prop, and set or stage. Exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States (20.11.2016-21.05.2017).
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