CONTENTS // Contributors ix // INTRODUCTION 1 // Alexander Dumbadze and Suzanne Hudson // 1 THE CONTEMPORARY AND // GLOBALIZATION 5 // Worlds Apart: Contemporary Art, Globalization, // and the Rise of Biennials 7 // Tim Griffin // "Our” Contemporaneity? 17 // Terry Smith // The Historicity of the Contemporary is Now! 28 // Jean-Philippe Antoine // 2 ART AFTER MODERNISM AND // POSTMODERNISM 37 // Elite Art in an Age of Populism 39 // Julian Stallabrass // "Of Adversity we Live!” 50 // Monica Amor // Making it Work: Artists and Contemporary // Art in China 60 // Pauline J. Yao // v i // Contents // 5 // FORMALISM // Form Struggles // Jan Verwoert // Formalism Redefined // Anne Ellegood // The World in Plain View: Form in the Service of the Global // Joan Kee // 4 MEDIUM SPECIFICITY // The (Re)Animation of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Art // Sabeth Buchmann // Medium Aspecificity/Autopoietic Form // Irene V. Small // Specificity // Richard Shiff // RT AND TECHNOLOGY // Test Sites: Fabrication // Michelle Kuo // Inhabiting the Technosphere: Art and Technology Beyond // Technical Invention // Ina Blom // Conceptual Art 2.0 // David Joselit // 6 BIENNIALS // In Defense of Biennials // Massimiliano Gioni // Curating in Heterogeneous Worlds // Geeta Kapur // Biennial Culture and the Aesthetics of Experience // Caroline A. Jones // Participation // Liam Gillick and Maria Lind // 70 // 72 // 84 // 95 // 105 // 107 // 117 // 126 // 1 37 // 139 // 149 // 159 // 1 69 // 171
// 178 // 192 // 202 // 204 // Contents vi i // The Ripple Effect: "Participation” as an Expanded Field 214 // Johanna Burton // Publicity and Complicity in Contemporary Art 224 // Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy // 8 ACTIVISM 232 // Activism 234 // Andrea Giunta // Knit Dissent 245 // Julia Bryan-Wilson // Light from a Distant Star: A Meditation on Art, Agency, // and Politics 254 // Raqs Media Collective // 9 AGENCY 265 // Participation in Art: 10 Theses 267 // Juliane Rehentisch // Fusions of Powers: Four Models of Agency in the Field // of Contemporary Art, Ranked Unapologetically in // Order of Preference 277 // Tirdad Zolghadr // Life Full of Holes: Contemporary Art and Bare Life 287 // T. J. Demos // 10 THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM 298 // Monotheism a la Mode 300 // Sven Lutticken // Freedom’s Just Another Word 311 // Terri Weissman // On the Frontline: The Politics of Terrorism in Contemporary // Pakistani Art 322 // Atteqa Ali // 11 JUDGMENT 331 // Judgment’s Troubled Objects 333 // Joao Ribas // vi i i Contents // A Producer’s Journal, or Judgment A Go-Go 346 // Frank Smigiel // After Criticism 357 // Lane Relyea // 12 MARKETS 367 // Globalization and Commercialization of the Art Market 369 // Olav Velthuis // Three Perspectives on the Market 379 // Mihai Pop, Sylvia Kouvali, and Andrea Rosen // Untitled ’ 388 // Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri // 13 ART SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY 406 // Lifelong Learning 408 // Katy Siegel // Art without Institutions 420
// Anton Vidokle // Will the Academy Become a Monster? 429 // Pi Li // 14 SCHOLARSHIP 436 // Our Literal Speed 438 // Our Literal Speed // Globalization, Art History, and the Specter of Difference 447 // Chika Okeke-Agulu // The Academic Condition of Contemporary Art 457 // Carrie Lambert-Beatty // Index 467