Nervous Systems: Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s

Published by Duke University Press 2021

Nervous Systems

Art, Systems, and Politics since the 1960s

Edited by: Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022053

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About this book

The contributors to Nervous Systems reassess contemporary artists' and critics' engagement with social, political, biological, and other systems as a set of complex and relational parts: an approach commonly known as systems thinking.

Author / Editor information

Johanna Gosse is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Idaho.

Timothy Stott is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, and author of Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices.

Reviews

“A vital and much-needed contribution to the literature on art and systems discourse. If the history of art has largely treated systems theory in terms of its technocratic implications in the 1960s, Nervous Systems expands the field to postwar and contemporary art, addressing race, gender, ecology, and global networks as among its most urgent questions.”

-- Pamela M. Lee, author of Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present

“Nervous Systems is one of the most impressive and conceptually nuanced collections of art historical essays that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. A model of what contemporary arts scholarship can look like, this volume is eminently readable and, most of all, teachable.”

-- Jonathan Eburne, author of Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Judith Rodenbeck Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
After the Breakdown: Sixty Years of Systems Art Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section I: Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics
1. Jack Burnham Redux: Reappraising Systems Aesthetics Luke Skrebowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. The Artist as “Weatherman Hans Haacke’s Critical Meteorology John Tyson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. Desalineación: Open Systems as Social Transformation in Tucumán Christine Filippone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Section II: Nervous Interfaces
4. The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines Kris Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5. Light and Space as Institutional Cri Dawna Schuld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
6. One among Many: Experiencing Complexity in Participatory Art Systems Cristina Albu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Section III: The Contemporary Art World Described as a System
7. Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: Liam Gillick’s Disappointing Systems Francis Halsall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
8. Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: Mel Chin’s The Arctic Is . . . Amanda Boetzkes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
9. Mapping, SEA STATE, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore Brianne Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
10. Toward Infrastructure Art: Containerization, Black Box Logistics, and New Distribution Complexes Jaimey Hamilton Faris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304

eBook

Published: November 2, 2021
ISBN: 9781478022053