par Van Acker, Wouter 
;De Boeck, Lieven
Référence Art Basel in Miami (5 December 2023: New World School of the Arts, Miami)
Publication Non publié, 2023-12-05
;De Boeck, Lieven Référence Art Basel in Miami (5 December 2023: New World School of the Arts, Miami)
Publication Non publié, 2023-12-05
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | In the Kunsthalle Bern in 1969, Harald Szeemann organized the legendary group show When Attitudes Become Form. This exhibition presented attitudes, works, concepts, processes, situations and information of many different artists, most of whom were part of the minimal or conceptual art movement. In 2013, curator Germano Celant, together with artist Thomas Demand and architect Rem Koolhaas, reconstructed this exhibition as close as possible to the original and inserted it under the form of a ready-made in another location, the Prada Foundation in Venice. This reconstruction of the exhibition, 44 years later, posed many issues about the reappearance of conceptual artworks.In this presentation we revisit this reconstruction through a critique of its archeological approach and an analysis of the curatorial choices made in 2013. This results in a diagnosis of the status of the artwork at the moment of its reappearance or make-over, and finally an artistic research proposal for a restaged make-over of WABF. The proposed installation aims to contribute to the formulation of a new model for the presentation of art which retains the ‘liveness’ of art when they are presented in a later moment than their first appearance. Instead of the question ‘What is art?’, central to the conceptual art movement, this artistic research explores the implications of disappearance and reappearance of an art object, or in other words, the question ‘When is art?’ |
