Where is Art? Space, Time, and Location in Contemporary Art

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated. While much advanced artistic speculation of the twentieth-century was aligned with the question “what is art?,” a key question for many artists and thinkers in the twenty-first century has become “where is art?” Contributors explore the challenge of meaningfully identifying and evaluating works located across multiple versions and locations in space and time. In doing so, they also seek to find appropriate language and criteria for evaluating forms of art that often straddle other realms of knowledge and activity. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, art criticism, and philosophy of art.

1. Introduction Simone Douglas, Adam Geczy, and Sean Lowry 2. Where is Art? Sean Lowry and Adam Geczy 3. Performance, Art, and the Relational Self Amelia Jones 4. Chronotopograpical Nodes and Moments of Encounter Sreshta Rit Premnath 5. Evidence Sharmistha Ray 6. Ice Boat: Field Notes (in Advance of a Melt) Simone Douglas 7. Bland Matter: New Materialism, and Barking Up the Wrong Tree Adam Geczy 8. Bandness Sean Lowry and Ilmar Taimre 9. Glittereiki Genevieve Hyacinthe 10. Beirut Lab: 1975(2020). Or: again, rubbed smooth, a moment in time__caesura Juli Carson 11. IrDaEdNiTcIaTlY Jeffrey Strayer 12. Would the Real Tusk Please Stand Up? Rosanna Raymond 13. Handiwork of Migrancy, Restitutions in the Contemporary Patrick Flores 14. Erasure or Erased: An Artworld (AND WORLD) Adrift Brad Buckley 15. All the World’s Futures Orianna Cacchione and Jessica Hong 16. Appendix: Project Anywhere Sean Lowry and Simone Douglas

Simone Douglas is a Professor in the School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons School of Design, The New School, NY, NY where she directed the MFA Fine Arts program from 2009 to 2019. Adam Geczy teaches at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Sean Lowry is Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies and Associate Director (Research)at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.