Information (1970 exhibition)

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Kynaston McShine, the curator of this MoMA exhibition in New York City presented videos and installations by American and European artists (a.o. Vito Acconci, Art & Language, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Dennis Oppenheim, Edward Ruscha, Robert Smithson oder Jeff Wall). It included an early example of dealing with publicly accessible archives within the context of an exhibition and some of the participating artists confronted the issues of political and media based contents: Haacke established «MOMA POLL» as a first link between the areas of politics and the museum by presenting an open poll on the way the Rockefeller family acted with regard to Nixon's plans in Indochina.

"With an artworld that knows more readily about current work, through reproductions and the wide dissemination of information via periodicals, and that has been altered by television, films and satellites, as well as the “jet,” it is now possible for artists to be truly international; exchange with their peers is now comparatively simple. The art historian’s problem of who did what fi rst is almost getting to the point of having to date by the hour. Increasingly artists use mail, telegrams, telex machines, etc., for transmission of works themselves—photographs, fi lms, documents—or of information about their activity. For both artists and their public it is a stimulating and open situation, and certainly less parochial than even fi ve years ago.It is no longer imperative for an artist to be in Paris or New York. Those far from the “art centers” contribute more easily, without the ooften artifi cial protocol that at one time seemed essential for recognition."
source: Kynaston McShine, "Introduction to Information", introduction text to the catalogue for the exhibiton Information at Museum of Modern Art, New York 1970

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