On 29/04/16 06:42 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote: > >> >> An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls' >> proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the >> gallery declined). It would have been a critical exposure of knowledge >> about the art world, enabling us to understand more about it, and was >> entirely indigestible by it, making it something other than Contemporary >> Art. >> > > - Hans Haacke
Oh yes Haacke is a very good example. In particular, Haacke's "Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time social System, as of May 1, 1971" was indigestible by the artworld of its time, - http://collection.whitney.org/object/29487 It was originally excluded from an exhibition. But as the Whitney url indicates has since been recuperated. Another work that exposes aspects of the artworld economy is Douglas Huebler's "Variable Piece no.44" (1971) - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/huebler-variable-piece-no-44-p07234 It's more open to the "art about art" charge than Haacke's work of the time, but is still an exposure of the hidden workings of its chosen system. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
