gelitin, Tantamounter 24/7 (detail), 2005
Installation and performance at Leo Koenig, Inc., New York
Courtesy Leo Koenig, Inc.
Photo copyright gelitin

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Twelve notes on collectivism and dark matter

- Gregory Sholette -

As a set of rules that define the events of discourse, the archive is situated between Langue, as the system of construction of possible sentences—that is, of possibilities of speaking—and the corpus that unites the set of what has been said, the things actually uttered or written.

A Collective Adventure

- Michelle White -

To celebrate a localized surge of collective artistic activity, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia invited groups of artists—including basekamp, Black Floor Gallery and Fritz Haeg Studio—to temporarily relocate to the museum and set up participatory projects for their spring 2007 exhibition, Locally Localized Gravity...

Oradores

- William Cordova & Leslie Hewitt -

Extraordinary Gestures

The Perfomane of Politics at the Borderland of an Abosolute

- Noah Simblist -

In July 2007, The Miss Rockaway Armada, a floating art parade buoyed by a handmade barge, set sail down the Mississippi River. This exercise in performative sculpture is a collaboration between multiple artist collectives including the Floating Neutrinos (who assail industrialization in favor of the auratic qualities of craft), Infernal Noise Brigade (Seattle-based arbiters of aural disruption) and Visual Resistance (a coalition of graffiti artists...

ether

- Frances Colpitt & Terri Thornton -

gelitin’s Tantamounter

- Tony Matelli -

When I first heard of gelitin, I thought they were brilliant; when I first met them, I thought they were insane...

Tracing the War on Poverty

- Julie Ault & Martin Beck -

One of the major twentieth-century initiatives by the U.S. Government to rectify the disparity between affluent and poor Americans was the 1960s War on Poverty.

Tracing the Bush Tax Cuts

- Julie Ault & Martin Beck -

Each year since 2001, and with much fanfare, the U.S President George W. Bush has launched tax legislation that purports to provide tax relief for struggling families in particular and for the American people at large.

On the Afterlife of Not Getting Along

- Jason Hill & Aram Moshayedi -

In late September 2007, MASS MoCA announced that it would discontinue its exhibition of materials associated with Christoph Büchel’s unfinished Training Ground for Democracy despite a favorable ruling from a federal district judge allowing the museum to display these materials...

Mary Ellen Carroll & Charles Renfro

- Toby Kamps -

Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist based in New York who explores the fields of language, subjectivity and power. She is currently planning an architectural and landscape-art intervention in Sharpstown, a subdivision of Houston.

A New Team Under an Old Threat

Fictional Selves and Feminist Practice in the Collaborative Work of Wynee Greenwood and K8 Hardy

- Amy Dickson -

By using collectivism as a strategy to decentralize the authorial masculine voice and employing a nonhierarchical model of organization and production, Lesbians to the Rescue (LTTR) recalls certain strategies of seventies feminist art collectives, such as Spiderwoman Theatre and “Where We At” Black Women Artists...

Collecting and Collectivity

- Simblist & Terranova -

Collecting and Collectivity forces a confrontation between two seemingly distinct and opposing acts. The logic of the first word—collecting—is rooted in the rhetoric of capitalist economics and the free-market system.

Harvest

- Sara Hines -

It started with a mood of political malaise—or perhaps depression—in the wake of the 2004 presidential election.

500X Gallery

- Anjali Gupta -

Social Sculpture

- Gilbert Vicario -

Artistic collectives are rare in Mexico, especially ones that address the relationship between art and public space.

Reenactment of Ant Farm’s Kidnapping Buckminster Fuller

- Julia Wallace & Nancy Douthey -

Dear Art Lies, We are a couple of students in Andrea Grover’s Participation Art Class. Andrea Grover came to us with the task of creating something concerning Participation Art for your magazine. After much heated discussion the class finally “agreed” to create the images that Andrea has presumably sent you, BUT...