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| − | '''Brian Holmes''' (1959, San Francisco) is a cultural critic who has worked with activists and artists in Europe and the Americas. He is interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. Holmes was the English editor of publications for ''Documenta X'', Kassel, Germany in 1997. He is a member of the groups [http://www.deeptimechicago.org Deep Time Chicago] and [http://midwestcompass.org/ Compass], and a former member of the graphic arts group [http://www.nepasplier.fr Ne pas plier] from 1999 to 2001, and the French conceptual art group [https://bureaudetudes.org/ Bureau d'études]. He | + | '''Brian Holmes''' (1959, San Francisco) is a cultural critic who has worked with activists and artists in Europe and the Americas. He is interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. Holmes was the English editor of publications for ''Documenta X'', Kassel, Germany in 1997. He is a member of the groups [http://www.deeptimechicago.org Deep Time Chicago] and [http://midwestcompass.org/ Compass], and a former member of the graphic arts group [http://www.nepasplier.fr Ne pas plier] from 1999 to 2001, and the French conceptual art group [https://bureaudetudes.org/ Bureau d'études]. He lives in [[Chicago]]. |
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Revision as of 14:14, 10 April 2021
Brian Holmes (1959, San Francisco) is a cultural critic who has worked with activists and artists in Europe and the Americas. He is interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. Holmes was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany in 1997. He is a member of the groups Deep Time Chicago and Compass, and a former member of the graphic arts group Ne pas plier from 1999 to 2001, and the French conceptual art group Bureau d'études. He lives in Chicago.
Publications
- Books
- Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art & Politics in a Networked Era, Zagreb: Arkzin/What, How and for Whom, 2003, 294 pp.
- co-editor, Continental Drift, Zagreb: What, How and for Whom/WHW, and Zagreb: AGM, 2008, 35 pp. Catalogue. (Croatian)
- Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering, Autonomedia, 2008, 187 pp. [1]
- Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society, Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, and Zagreb: WHW, 2009, 414 pp.
- with Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann, Volatile Smile, Nürnberg: Moderne Kunst, 2014, 182 pp. [2] [3]
- Driving the Golden Spike: The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space, Deep Time Chicago, 2016, 19 pp. Pamphlet.
- Book chapters, essays
- "The Flexible Personality: For a New Cultural Critique", transversal 1 (2002).
- "Der flexible Charakter. Für eine neue Kulturkritik", trans. Birgit Mennel, transversal 1 (2002). (German)
- "La personalidad flexible. Por una nueva crítica cultural", trans. Marcelo Expósito, rev. Brian Holmes and Joaquín Barriendos, transversal 1 (2002). (Spanish)
- "Fleksibilna ličnost: za novu kulturalnu kritiku", trans. Nataša Ilić, transversal 1 (2002). (Croatian)
- "The Potential Personality: Trans-Subjectivity in the Society of Control", in 3 escenarios, Las Palmas: CAAM, 2006, PDF.
- "Personalidade potencial: trans–subjetividade na sociedade de controle", trans. Filipe Ferreira, Cadernos de Subjetividade 8:13, São Paulo: PUC-SP, Oct 2011, pp 194-205, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- "Further: Wisconsin and Dreamtimes West", in A Call to Farms: Continental Drift through the Radical Midwest Culture Corridor, Viroqua, WI: Heavy Duty Press, 2008, pp 35-37. [4]
- "Die Erfindung der Eventarbeit. Public Netbase in den 1990ern", in Vergessene Zukunft: radikale Netzkulturen in Europa, eds. Clemens Apprich and Felix Stalder, Bielefeld: transcript, 2012, pp 119-123. (German)
- "Cartography With Your Feet: Workshop Proposal for “Beneath the University, the Commons”", in Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions, eds. Rozalinda Borcila, Bonnie Fortune and Sarah Ross, Wisconsin: White Wire, 2012. [5] [6]
- "Continental Drift 2011: Argentina / China", in Deep Routes: The Midwest in All Directions, eds. Rozalinda Borcila, Bonnie Fortune and Sarah Ross, Wisconsin: White Wire, 2012. [7] [8]
- "Tactical Television. Movement Media in the Nineties", Regarding Spectatorship, 2015.
- "Captive Sun", in Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography, 2016. [9]
Interviews
- Tom Vandeputte, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, "Boundaries of Knowledge: Questions for Brian Holmes", 2015.
- Tünde Mariann Varga, "Political Ecology and Anthropocene Public Space: An Interview with Brian Holmes", Mezosfera, Budapest, Jun 2016.
Links
- Continental Drift, blog, until 2015
- Time To Change / Just Transition, 2021 video presentation
- Living Rivers
- Profile on EGS (archived)
- Live Your Models: Self-orientation and urban form in the next “spirit of capitalism”, keynote at the Former West: Art and Labor after the End of Work conference, Warsaw, 2015
- ARG
- Wikipedia
