A phenomenology of media eugene gogol, toward a dialectic of philosophy and organization tom eyers, postrationalism. The text questions the role of art in a world where all things are understood to be sources of aesthetic experience. He is currently a global distinguished professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university and senior research fellow at the karlsruhe university of arts and design in karlsruhe, germany. There is no chance of a spectator distinguishing between an artwork and a osimple thingo on the basis of the spectatoros visual experience alone. Pdf on mar 5, 2015, michele dantini and others published boris groys, going public, in. Groys claims that if the techniques of mechanical reproduction gave us objects without aura, digital production generates aura without objects, transforming all its materials into vanishing markers of the transitory present. Going public eflux journal kindle edition by boris groys, liam gillick, jeff ramsey, julieta aranda, brian kuan wood, anton viokle. Boris groys the article makes the claim that the curator may exhibit, but he doesnt have the magical ability to transform nonart into art through the act of display. Read the latest magazines about groys and discover magazines on. In this radical and disturbing account of soviet philosophy, boris groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. Originally from the catalogue to documenta 11 ostfildernruit. In these times, we know that everything can be an artwork.
In his essay 2009, groys defends the role of art as political propaganda and calls for politically motivated art to be included in the discourse of modern art. So art theorist boris groys retells the now venerable story of the modern, the postmodern, and thewheneverwearenow in this superb, if sometimes highly questionable, collection of essays. Mar 11, 2015 originally from the catalogue to documenta 11 ostfildernruit. A new book by boris groys acknowledges the problem and potential of arts complex relationship to power. Page after page, groys formulates ingenious constructions that describe the unique characteristics of the cultural artifacts of our time, while simultaneously compelling the reader to think in a distinctly artistic way about these artifacts. Following his recent books art powerand the communist postscript, in going public boris groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of artwhich always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Yet the belated english publication of boris groyss on the new 2014. Boris groys the posthuman condition according to alexandre kojeve. Oct 25, 2010 boris groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an internationally acclaimed expert on latesoviet postmodern art and literature, as well as on the russian avantgarde. He is a global distinguished professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university, a senior research fellow at the staatliche hochschule fur gestaltung.
He has been a professor of aesthetics, art history, and media theory at the karlsruhe. There is still the problem of originality and opaqueness. Boris groys in translation joshua synenko boris groys. The video projections by olga chernysheva are spontaneously convincing and truly artistic inasmuch as they rest on such congruity. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or. Past tense version pdf kindle get latest articles tablets you going to lose and i. Starting from the mid1970s, he published articles on philosophy and theory in samizdat journals and participated in apartment seminars on underground art. He was born in leningrad and graduated from the mathematical logic department in leningrad state university in 1971.
Jorinde seijdels reading group will focus on the changing conditions of researching, writing and publishing today, and on how new discursive contexts and knowledge distribution systems are currently being created. Let us instead consider art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place. Groys believes that art can be categorised either as a commodity on the art market or a tool of political propaganda. Boris groys going public is the third in this ongoing series of books published by eflux journal with sternberg press. Jul 01, 2014 art power introduction by boris groys a summary on 01072014 01072014 by alla zaykova in summary in his essay 2009, groys defends the role of art as political propaganda and calls for politically motivated art to be included in the discourse of modern art. In art power, groys examines modern and contemporary art according to art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the. Boris groys, going public, eflux journal, berlin new york, sternberg press.
I t may seem contradictory to release a translation of a work which questions ideas of the new some twentytwo years after the german original. The contemporary world, argues boris groys, was made possible by the downfall of historical communism. Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Psychoanalysis, epistemology, and marxism in postwar france. Boris groys introduction global conceptualism revisited by way of an introduction to this issue of eflux journal, i would like to discuss the changes in our understanding and perception of art engendered by conceptual art practices of the 1960s and 1970s, focusing not on the history of conceptual art or individual works, but rather on the.
Many of these pieces were written for prior publications, so the books contents are both heterogenous and sometimes repetitive. Constructing capitalism economic life and urban change lazzarato, maurizio. Or rather, everything can be turned into an artwork by an artist. Art, groys writes, is produced and brought before the public in two waysas a commodity and as a.
Powers and failures of paperwork ash amin and nigel thrift, arts of the political. In this major new work, groys charts the paradoxes produced by this tension, and explores art in the age of the thingless medium, the internet. Since plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. Jan 20, 2015 boris groys the posthuman condition according to alexandre kojeve. This dialogue is regulated by the way in which we define the legitimate questions that we may ad dress to the world or the world may address.
Following his recent books art power and the communist postscript, in going public boris groys looks rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Book launch and conversation with saul anton and boris groys ny art book fair at ps1moma sunday, november 7th, 12pm conference room. Capitalism and the production of subjectivity negri, antonio. Alison assiter and margherita tonon, eds, kierkegaard and the political.
Going public eflux journal by boris groys 20101101 boris groys on. Going public eflux journal boris groys, julieta aranda, brian kuan wood, anton vidokle on free shipping on qualifying offers. Man interrogates the world and is interrogated by the world. The time closure to whic h the individual message 0t an a cides with the message of the medium used by artist in his or her work. Boris efimovich groys born 19 march 1947 is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. Now we seem to be happy about the loss of history, the idea of. The emergence of social space rimbaud and the paris commune. Boris groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an internationally acclaimed expert on latesoviet postmodern art and literature, as well as on the russian avantgarde. Nov 01, 2010 following his recent books art power and the communist postscript, in going public boris groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of art.
In the reading group about changing notions of authorship, knowledge production and cultural practices in a digital age and networked society, we will this time focus on some current writings of boris groys born 1947 in eastberlin. Boris groys was born on march 19, 1947 in east berlin, east germany. Following his recent books art power and the communist postscript, in going public boris groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological. Boris groys selfdesign and aesthetic responsibility of knowledge and political action. On the new does more to explain the ways that art becomes art in the contemporary world than any book in recent memory. Complimentary downloads, books on various topics available on this page, religious books, and other motivational books the books in the form of ebooks in pdf files. Book launch and conversation with saul anton and boris groys. Going public boris groys free download as pdf file. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link. Eugene gogol, toward a dialectic of philosophy and organization. Boris groys 1947, east berlin is professor at new york university and senior research fellow at the academy of design, karlsruhe.
New openings for the left boris groys, under suspicion. Going public eflux journal by boris groys 20101101. In the process of articulating the rheologyor fluidityof art. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician boris groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art markets fiats of. All assignments and exercises listed below must be completed to pass the course. Boris groys born boris efimovich groys, eastberlingdr, 1947 is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher 196571 studies of philosophy and mathematics at the university of leningrad rus. Being global, being collective university of florida. Naturally, art may still perform its classical function and express the most poignant moments of the human condition. Boris groys, politics of installation from going public, sternberg press 2010. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician boris groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art markets fiats of inclusion and. Boris groys born boris efimovich groys, eastberlingdr, 1947 is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. Boris groys is a philosopher, essayist, art critic, media theorist, and an internationally renowned expert on sovietera art and literature, especially the russian avantgarde.
This book has emerged from the desire to answer the question about the nature of the force that upholds our cultural archives and endows them with their durabilitya question that has preoccupied me ever since i published on the new. At the same time, todays political and aesthetic strategies from a unified europe to political islam and contemporary mass culture all bear the imprint of communist heritage. Boris groys selfdesign and aesthetic responsibility. Control over autonomy is not the only kind of control that should be achieved. Life after the end of love july 1 2014 according to kojeve, the posthistorical reality is defined by a divorce between the. Feb 02, 2016 boris efimovich groys born 19 march 1947 is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. The curator as iconoclast chloe parpworth reynolds. In the flow not only aptly describes boris groys brilliantly astute state of mind when writing this book, but also signals the incredible journey the reader will take around some of the most pervasive cultural constructs of our time. Following his recent books art power and the communist postscript, in going public boris groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understandings of artwhich always assume the position of the spectator, of the consumer. Boris groys politics of installation the field of art is today frequently equated with the art market, and the artwork is primarily identified as a commodity. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician boris groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art markets fiats of inclusion and exclusion.
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