The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today
Book launch and presentation
Wed, October 29, 2014 6:00 pm CET
- Location
- Library
Editor and author Marc James Léger will present his new book »The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today«
When you mention the word »avant garde« to a socially engaged artist they will tell you straight out: “I don’t believe in that.” But what does it matter if you don’t believe but you are doing it anyway? Editor and author Marc James Léger will present some of his thoughts on »sinthomeopathic practice« as background to the concatenation that is »The Idea of the Avant Garde«, a book that brings together more than 50 artists and intellectuals to ponder the avant garde hypothesis as a claim on contemporary art and politics.
On the publication
- Editor: Marc James Léger
- Manchester University Press, September 2014
- 285 pages
- 120 illustrations
Contributors
Marc James Léger, Adrian Piper, Andrea Fraser, David Tomas, Catherine Lescarbeau, Hal Foster, Laura Mulvey, Bruce LaBruce, Santiago Sierra, Derek Horton, Richard Kostelanetz, Christine Wertheim, Lyn Hejinian, Marjorie Perloff, Wu Ming 2, Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Rabih Mroué, Judith Malina, Moe Angelos, Bill Brown, The Errorist International, Jonas Mekas, Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Kluge, Oskar Negt, Travis Wilkerson, Evan Mauro, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Gene Ray, John Roberts, Zanny Begg, Dmitry Vilensky, Owen Hatherley, Michael Webb, Mitchell Joachim, Beatriz Colomina, Boris Groys, Vitaly Komar, Victor Tupitsyn, Gregory Sholette, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Critical Art Ensemble, BAVO, Alexei Monroe, Jean-Hervé Péron, Chris Cutler, Charles Gaines, Jason Robinson, Sara Marcus, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Thanos Chrysakis, Kim Cascone, Marc Couroux, Thérèse Mastroiacovo, Chrysi Papaioannou, Bill Dane