Gerber Empty Action

Labour and Free Time in the Art of Collective Actions
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-8394-4090-2
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 124, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

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Collective Actions is one of the most significant artistic practices to emerge from Moscow Conceptualism. The group's enigmatic idea of 'Empty action' is the focal point for Marina Gerber's exploration of this practice in relation to labour in the late Soviet Union. Based on interviews with members of the group (Monastyrski, Panitkov, Alexeev, Makarevich, Elagina, Romashko, Hänsgen and Kiesewalter) she exposes the relation between their jobs, their individual art practices and their contribution to the collective in the context of post-Stalinist debates on labour and free time. Departing from the mundane fact that Collective Actions' practice took place in free time from work for the Soviet State, Gerber identifies Empty action as a form of 'art after work'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerber, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Gerber, Marina
Marina Gerber (Dr.) has taught at Queen Mary University of London, Berlin University of the Arts and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her research interests include modern and contemporary art and its relation to labour, free time and knowledge.

Marina Gerber (PhD) has taught at Queen Mary University of London and Berlin University of the Arts. Her research interests include modern and contemporary art and its relation to labour, free time and knowledge.