The Exform (Futures)

The Exform (Futures)

by Nicolas Bourriaud (Author), Erik Butler (Translator)

Synopsis

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology, psychoanalysis and art. A realist theory and practice must begin by uncovering the mechanisms that create the distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded. To do this we must go back to the towering theorist of ideology Louis Althusser and examine how ideology conditions political discourse in ways that normalize cultural, racial and economic practices of exclusion.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 16 Aug 2016

ISBN 10: 1784783803
ISBN 13: 9781784783808

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Fascinating, wide-ranging and extremely well-informed. - Warren Montag
Author Bio
Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is the Director of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, an art school in Paris, France. He co-founded, and from1999 to 2006 was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jerome Sans. He was also founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art (1992-2000), and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art from 1987 to1995. Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art from 2008-2010 at Tate Britain, London, and in 2009 he curated the fourth Tate Triennial there, entitled Altermodern.