Where Art Belongs

Explore the profound insights of Chris Kraus in *Where Art Belongs*, a compelling trade paperback examining the intersection of art, time, and community. In this thought-provoking collection, Kraus delves into artistic endeavors over the past decade that leverage lived experiences as essential materials in the creation of striking visual art. Through a series of four interconnected essays, she advances the conversation from her previous work, *Video Green*, emphasizing that the art world is intrinsically linked to the wider world around us.

Travel with Kraus from the bustling streets of New York to the vibrant art scenes of Berlin and Los Angeles, and even into the culturally rich Pueblo Nuevo barrio of Mexicali. She thoughtfully explores diverse topics ranging from the omnipresence of video art to the legacies of underground publications, while also highlighting the activities of notable collectives like the New York art movers and shakers, Bernadette Corporation.

Kraus’s examination encompasses themes such as boredom in art, the influence of community installations, the complexities of corporate philanthropy in the arts, and the microcultures that persist despite the mainstream’s dominance. As she chronicles the valiant yet often challenging efforts of artists to reclaim public space and time, she captures a crucial trend in visual art: the push towards collective action against the backdrop of an increasingly disembodied digital age. *Where Art Belongs* stands as a testament to the enduring spirit of resistance in the art world, where the desire for meaningful change remains vibrant and alive.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781584350989
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2011
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Pages: 176


Description:
Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In Where Art Belongs, Chris Kraus examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art. In four interlinked essays, Kraus expands the argument begun in her earlier book Video Green that "the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the larger world outside it." Moving from New York to Berlin to Los Angeles to the Pueblo Nuevo barrio of Mexicali, Kraus addresses such subjects as the ubiquity of video, the legacy of the 1960s Amsterdam underground newspaper Suck, and the activities of the New York art collective Bernadette Corporation. She examines the uses of boredom, poetry, privatized prisons, community art, corporate philanthropy, vertically integrated manufacturing, and discarded utopias, revealing the surprising persistence of microcultures within the matrix. Chronicling the sometimes doomed but persistently heroic efforts of small groups of artists to reclaim public space and time, Where Art Belongs describes the trend towards collectivity manifested in the visual art world during the past decade, and the small forms of resistance to digital disembodiment and the hegemony of the entertainment/media/culture industry. For all its faults, Kraus argues, the art world remains the last frontier for the desire to live differently.


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