A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework

JANE CHIN DAVIDSON is Professor of Art History and Global Cultures at California State University, San Bernadino. She has published widely on topics in contemporary global art, Chinese diasporic identity in the arts, performance, transnationalism, feminism, and eco-feminism. As an exhibition curator, she studies the decolonizing processes for global exhibitions. AMELIA JONES is Robert A. Day Professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her published work and curated exhibitions have focused on queer, feminist, and anti-racist analyses of modern and contemporary visual art and performance of the Euro-American tradition. She is Editor of A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945 (Wiley Blackwell, 2006).

List of Illustrations ix

Series Editor's Preface xv

About the Editors xvii

Notes on Contributors xix

Editors' Acknowledgments xxvii

Introduction: The Eurocentrism of Contemporary Art, Staging the Project 1
Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones

Part I Decades 17

1980-1990 17

1 I Live in the Fourth Dimension When I Create Landscapes: Artist Statement 19
Senga Nengudi

2 Seeing Beyond East/West Divides: Contemporary Art in and Around 1980s China 23
Jenny Lin

1990-2000 35

3 Is There a Line that Connects All Things? Artist Statement 37
Sutapa Biswas

4 Why Contemporary Art Is Post-Soviet 41
Angela Harutyunyan

2000-2010 55

5 Art and Politics: Artist Statement 57
Tania Bruguera

6 Maori and Pacific Art at the Turn of a New Millennium 61
Nina Tonga and Caroline Vercoe

2010-2020 75

7 Art for Abolition: Artist Statement 77
Patrisse Cullors

8 Situating African Diasporic Art 79
Nana Adusei-Poku

Part II Themes

Institutions/Ontology 87

9 COLONIALISM "The Whole World in his Hands": A Decolonial Approach to European Concepts of Art 89
Claire Farago

10 PEDAGOGY The Blank Canvas and Other Myths 105
Al-An deSouza

11 CRAFT Craft and the Making of "Global" Contemporary Art 119
Pamela N. Corey

12 PERFORMANCE Dreams and Visions in the Interval 133
Mlondolozi Zondi

13 EMBODIMENT/MATERIALITY Love Songs (to End Hetero-Patriarchal, Settler-Colonial, Extractivism) 149
Natalie Loveless

Politics/Public Sphere 167

14 REVOLUTION Revolution is a Circle 169
Tatiana Flores

15 ART AND ITS MARKETPLACES It Was a Small World, After All 183
Suzanne Hudson

16 PUBLIC SPHERES The Politics of Public Space in Postrevolutionary Iran 199
Talinn Grigor

17 (ANTI-)CAPITALISM The Imminent Promise and Fear of a Getaway Car 213
Raqs Media Collective

18 ENVIRONMENT Envisioning a More Just Future: Feminist Activist Art, Climate Change, and the Anthropocene 227
Lisa E. Bloom

Identity/Subjectivity 239

19 INDIGENEITY Global Futurisms: Prophetic Practices of Reclamation, Liberation, and Transcendence 241
Timotéo I. Montoya II

20 DIASPORA Transnational Collectivities of Solidarity and Affect 255
Ceren Özpinar

21 GENDER/SEXUALITY Performing the Intersection: Camp and the "Cat Lady" 267
Jane Chin Davidson

22 RACE/ETHNICITY Three Forms of Appropriation: Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon, and Nao Bustamante 281
Jessi DiTillio and Cherise Smith

23 DISABILITY Disability Justice, Community, and Performance 295
Shayda Kafai and Jennette Ramirez

Methods/Theories 309

24 POSTCOLONIAL/DECOLONIAL Post-/Anti-/Neo-/De- Colonial Theories and Visual Analysis 311
Alpesh Kantilal Patel

25 MARXISM/POST-MARXISM History, Marxism, Reality, and Utopia: The Bishan Project in China (2010-2016) 327
Ou Ning

26 CRITICAL RACE THEORY "The Blast Work": Situating Critical Race Theory in Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice 343
Kelli Morgan in Dialogue with Amelia Jones

27 POSTSTRUCTURALISM/POSTMODERNISM/POSTCOLONIALISM Mapping Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism 359
April Baca

28 GENDER/SEX THEORY Feminist/Queer/Trans Theory and Trans Embodied Methodologies in Contemporary Art: An Intergenerational Dialogue on the Page 377
Ace Lehner and Amelia Jones

29 PERFORMANCE THEORY The "Studies Protocols" of Performance Studies 399
Joshua Chambers-Letson

Technology/Media 417

30 INTERNET "Bias Is Not a Bug. It's a Feature": An Interview with Hito Steyerl on Representation in the Digital Age 419
Hito Steyerl and Anuradha Vikram

31 SOCIAL MEDIA Why Is It So Hard to Look the Other in the Eye? The Selfie and its Discontents 435
Derek Murray

32 ALGORITHM Algorithms in Global Art and Visual Culture 451
Gary Kafer and Tyler Quick

Exhibition/Collecting/Archive 465

33 MUSEUM Time, Love, and the Museum 467
Florencia San Martin

34 BIENNIAL/ART FAIR Biennial as a Discursive Political System for Contemporary Art 481
Jane Chin Davidson

35 CURATING In Residence, Incarcerated Regina José Galindo's America's Family Prison 503
Andy Campbell

36 COLLECTING The World Should Collect Itself: Collecting Art Globally (and Other Predicaments) 517
Gerardo Mosquera

37 ARCHIVE Ghosts in the Archive: Exorcism, Resurrection and the Possibilities of Repair 529
Hammad Nasar

Index 541