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