Transform (a project of EIPCP) and mayfly books teamed up to bring us this new collection of essays on institutional critique.
In furtherance of the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, these essays both cover familiar ground and look beyond the art world for new definitions of institutional critique. Given their perceived “global transformations of contemporary life” and specifically regarding the
work of philosophers and political theorists such as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno and others, these essays reflect on the mutual enrichments between critical art practices and social movements and elaborate the conditions for politicized critical practice in the twenty-first century.
Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique is edited by Gerald Raunig and Gene Ray, with texts by Boris Buden, Rosalyn Deutsche, Marcelo Expósito, Marina Garcés, Brian Holmes, Jens Kastner, Maurizio Lazzarato, Isabell Lorey, Nina Möntmann, Stefan Nowotny, Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, Simon Sheikh, Hito Steyerl, Universidad Nómada, Paolo Virno
The book can be downloaded for free, purchased from Autonomedia for readers living in the US, or directly from mayfly for readers living in the UK.
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