Context in Art- Since 2002
Contextin' Art is a mini-portal for the exploration of the
context of art. The economic, political and social forces shaping the
histories of art are visualized as artworks themselves. With
"Contextin' Art", visitors can visually browse the often invisible
relationships between art, electoral politics, and economic philanthropy. Contextin' takes cues from
previous generations of artists engaged in "institutional critique" and "conceptual art," as well as calls from contemporary artivists to interrogate the desire for "techno-formalism" within
institutions.
Separate "things," "forms," "objects," "shapes," with
beginnings and endings are mere convenient fiction: there is only
an uncertain disintegrating order that transcends the limits of
rational separations. The fictions erected in the
eroding Robert Smithson,
"A Sedimentation of the Mind" |