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Random access 2 : ambient fears

Title
  1. Random access 2 : ambient fears / edited by Pavel Büchler and Nikos Papastergiadis.
Published by
  1. London : Rivers Oram ; Concord, MA : Paul & Company, 1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Büchler, Pavel.
  2. Papastergiadis, Nikos, 1962-
  3. Glasgow School of Art.
Description
  1. 223 pages; 20 cm
Summary
  1. Is culture in crisis? Are the political conditions of modern creative work transforming contemporary culture? What anxieties and desires define modern art?
  2. Random Access 2 poses these and other questions on art practice and cultural developments and considers the relationship between practice and criticism in contemporary culture. Essays from celebrated artists and thinkers cover topics ranging from criminality among the British urban poor to art teaching, art as memory, interpretation of dance, to the death of Bohemia.
Alternative title
  1. Ambient fears
Subject
  1. Modernism (Art) > Political aspects
  2. Postmodernism > Political aspects
  3. Art > Political aspects
  4. Arts, Modern > 20th century
  5. Culture
Contents
  1. The One and the Many: An Introduction / Pavel Buchler and Nikos Papastergiadis -- 1. The New International Postal Order: From Air Mail to E-Mail / Sean Cubitt -- 2. Nine Theses Against Monuments / Critical Art Ensemble -- 3. Shelley's Revolutionary Year / Paul Foot -- 4. The Death of Bohemia? / Elizabeth Wilson -- 5. The Limits of Consensus / James Lingwood -- 6. Wild Conversation / Peripheral Visions: Towards Another Art Education / Iain Biggs -- 7. Re-focusing: Works from the Seventies and the Nineties / John Hilliard -- 8. The Rebirth of Nature / Rupert Sheldrake -- 9. Seven Drinks / One Drink / John Baldessari -- 10. The Aesthetic Event / Thomas Docherty -- 11. Mnemonic Repositions / Aaron Williamson -- 12. Reading Difficulties / Sandra Kemp -- 13. Proposals / Thomas Lawson -- 14. Social Justice: Crime, Community, Gender and Generation / Beatrix Campbell -- 15. I Am / Kiki Smith -- 16. (From) Teaching for the Times / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak --
  2. 17. Invisible Monument / Jochen Gerz.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Companion volume to: Random access : on crisis and its metaphors.
  2. An anthology of contributions from SoFA Friday Events series 1993/95, Glasgow School of Art.