Nato Thompson, Gregory Sholette (eds.): The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (2004)

“Art made to attach to buildings or to be given away? Wearable art for street demonstrations or art that sets up a booth at a trade show? This is the art of the interventionists, who trespass into the everyday world to raise our awareness of injustice and other social problems. These artists don’t preach or proselytize; they give us the tools to form our own opinions and create our own political actions. The Interventionists, which accompanies an exhibit at MASS MoCA, serves as a handbook to this new and varied work. It’s a user’s guide to art that is exciting, provocative, unexpected, inspiring (artistically and politically), and fun. From Michael Rakowitz’s inflatable homeless shelter and William Pope.L’s “Black Factory” truck with pulverizer, gift shop, and giant inflatable igloo to the Biotic Baking Brigade’s political pie-throwing, the art of The Interventionists surveys a growing genre and offers a guide for radical social action.

The book classifies the artists according to their choice of tactics: the Nomads, who create mobile projects; Reclaim the Streets, artists who act in public places; Tools for Resistance: Ready to Wear, artists who produce fashion for political action; and the Experimental University, artists whose work engages pedagogy and theory. The accompanying text includes essays by noted scholars putting the work in a broader cultural and social context as well as texts by the artists themselves.”

With contributions by Nicholas Mirzoeff and Ondine C. Chavoya
With graphics by Arjen Noordeman
Publisher MASS MoCA Publications, North Adams/MA, 2004
154 pages

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Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny (2007–) [Czech]

“Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny je periodikum zaměřující se na současné vizuální umění v širším kulturním a teoretickém kontextu. Cílem Sešitu je kultivovat domácí reflexi umění tištěním odborných textů z oblasti humanitních a společenských věd, které tematizují současnou situaci umění a živé kultury u nás i v zahraničí. Sešit z principu není metodologicky vymezen; rozhodujícími měřítky jsou kvalita, podnětnost a relevance pro reflexi současného vizuálního umění.”

Edited by Václav Magid
Editorial board: Claire Bishop, Claudia Joles, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Jiří Ševčík, Martin Škabraha
ISSN 1802-8918

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Issue 1-2 (2007, single PDF, texts by Patricie C. Phillips and Peter Bürger are missing)
Issue 4-5 (2008, single PDF, 75 MB, texts by Jonathan Crary and Steven Best/Douglas Kellner are missing, added on 2014-2-10)
Issue 8 (2010, single PDF)
Issue 9 (2010, single PDF)
Issue 10 (2011, single PDF, added on 2014-2-10)
Issue 11 (2011, single PDF, added on 2014-2-10)
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Michel Gondry: You’ll Like This Film Because You’re in It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol (2008)

Michel Gondry’s debut book is a functional memoir of his quest to put the tools of filmmaking in the hands of as many people as possible. At Deitch Projects in 2008 Gondry emulated the example of his characters, constructing a do-it-yourself film studio in which any visitor could assemble their own film from extant plot summaries and rent the results. This book chronicles Gondry’s journey towards what he calls “The Be Kind Rewind Protocol”.

Publisher Picture Box, Brooklyn, 2008
ISBN 0979415381, 9780979415388
80 pages

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