“Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art” at The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam December 2015 It’s not so much that there are no objects in this exhibition, ostensively about “conceptual art” (and Seth Siegelaub’s part in it) but that the book, a container of codes for the conveyance of ideas, becomes an object, a museum fetish displayed behind glass. […]
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After/Image: Hong Kong book art exhibition
Originally posted on Saturday, April 25 2015 Hong Kong is an urban jungle that inevitably points to the profit motive as the starting and finishing point for ANY activity, a harshly “pragmatic” circumstance that most definitely puts its “extra-economic” activity at a disadvantage. Therefore, forms such as the ephemeral “artist book”, long established in the […]