Rejected Heritage: Polish Art of the 1980s (2011) [Polish, English]

Publication based on a conference on Polish art of the 1980s organised by Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art.

Edited by Karol Sienkiewicz
Publisher Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, 2011
189 pages

Publisher

Odrzucone dziedzictwo. O sztuce polskiej lat 80. (Polish, 2011, Issuu, Video recordings from conference)
Rejected Heritage: Polish Art of the 1980s (English, 2011, HTML; Issuu)

Kasper Opstrup: The Way Out: Invisible Insurrections and Radical Imaginaries in the UK Underground, 1961-1991 (2017)

“A counterculture history of art and experimental politics that turns the world inside out

The Way Out examines the radical political and hedonist imaginaries of the experimental fringes of the UK Underground from 1961 to 1991. By examining the relations between collective and collaborative practices with an explicit agenda of cultural revolution, Kasper Opstrup charts a hidden history of experiments with cultural engineering, expanding current discussions of art, medias, politics, radical education and the occult revival. Even though the theatres of operation have changed with the rise of the Internet and a globalised finance economy, these imaginaries still raise questions that speak directly to the present.

Here we encounter a series of figures – including Alexander Trocchi, R. D. Laing, Joseph Berke, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs and Genesis P-Orridge – that blurred the lines between inner and outer, the invisible and the material. Four singular forms of speculative techniques for igniting an invisible insurrection with cultural means make up the central case studies: the sigma project, London Anti-University, Academy 23 and thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

Contained within these imaginaries is a new type of action university: a communal affair that would improvise a new type of social relation into existence by de-programming and de-conditioning us without any blueprints for the future besides to make it happen. Instead of being turned upside down, the world was to be changed from the inside out.”

Publisher Minor Compositions, Wivenhoe, 2017
ISBN 9781570273285
252 pages

Publisher

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Osemdesata / The Eighties (2017) [Slovenian/English]

A magazine and booklet for a trilogy of exhibitions focusing on the 1980s and their legacy organized by Moderna galerija in Ljubljana.

Edited by Adela Železnik and Ana Mizerit
Publisher Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 2017
Open access
24 & 80 pages
via MG+MSUM

Exhibitions

Magazine (8 MB)
Booklet: The Heritage of 1989. Case Study: The Second Yugoslav Documents Exhibition (14 MB)

See also The 1980s: Today’s Beginnings? An Alternative View on the 80s (2016).