Place-as-Medium and New Grounds for Thinking in Contemporary Art

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-71009-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

This book presents a broad scope of global contemporary art projects, establishing a new philosophical framework to understand and evaluate the new art practice known as "place-as-medium".

This new category of art practice creates artworks that deepen our belonging to place, and remake the world, each according to the new forms they bring into being and the unique ways in which they ask us to think through them together. This book shows the ways in which place-as-medium art reshapes the ground of thinking by offering a new reading of the work of Alfredo Jaar through the theories of Jacques Rancière, Gianni Vattimo, and Martin Heidegger. The book advocates for shared authorship exemplified in artworks by Theaster Gates and John Preus that use repair and renovation to rebuild communities, and provides a model for ecological thinking through place-as-medium in a case study of The Swamp School by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas. Additionally, the book includes a CODA for Place-as-Medium as a practical guide for artists to think through place.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, and philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farrington, Katherine Paige

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION: Place-as-Medium: An Introduction 1. Thinking Through Place: On Alfredo Jaar 2. Boundaries of Place in Alfredo Jaar’s Public Interventions 3. The Play of Places in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s dOCUMENTA (13 4. Place-as-Medium and the Question of Hospitality5. Towards a Shared Authorship of Place  6. The Swamp School and the Promise of Place-as-Medium as Ecological Thinking APPENDIX: CODA for Place-as-Medium

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Paige Farrington is an artist-philosopher and currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at Montserrat College of Art and Affiliated Faculty at Emerson College. Her artworks include “Future Monument to the Trees of the Public Garden” (2024), part of a multi-year public art initiative Un-Monument sponsored by the City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and supported by the Mellon Foundation. Her art collective, Ocean School Collective (OSC), was selected for the 2025 Goetemann Environmental Artist Residency at the Ocean Alliance in Gloucester, Massachusetts by the Rocky Neck Art Colony.