What we want is free : generosity and exchange in recent art /

• Other Authors: Purves, Ted (επιμελητής.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2005
• Series: SUNY series in postmodern culture
• Subjects: Τέχνη και κοινωνία; Διαδραστική τέχνη; Τέχνη κοινοτικής βάσης; Καλλιτέχνες και κοινότητα

Review: "Through a variety of lenses, this book examines contemporary artists' use of the "gift" - the distribution of goods and services - as a medium for artistic production. Featuring a detailed survey of over fifty artists' projects from fifteen countries, What We Want I...

Table of Contents:

• Reciprocal generosity / Mary Jane Jacob
• Sure, everyone might be an artist ... but only one artist gets to be the guy who says that everyone else is an artist / Bill Arning
• Lunch hour: art, community, administrated space, and unproductive activity / Kate Fowle and Lars Bang Larsen
• Blows against the empire / Ted Purves
• Four projects / Jörgen Svensson
• A given / Ben Kinmont
• How do you pin a wave upon the sand? An interview with Cesare Pietroiusti / Shane Aslan Selzer
• A call for sociality / Jeanne van Heeswijk
• Introductory remarks on the handbook / Ted Purves
• Project histories / edited by Jessica Ingram ... [et al.]
• Exchange
• the "other" social sculpture / Francis McIlveen.