Place-as-Medium and New Grounds for Thinking in Contemporary Art
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 22 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032710099
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 45 Illustrations, black & white; 15 Illustrations, color; 45 Halftones, black & white; 15 Halftones, color 700
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Short description:
This book presents a broad scope of global contemporary art projects, establishing a new philosophical framework to understand and evaluate the new art practice known as "place-as-medium".
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Long description:
This book presents a broad scope of global contemporary art projects, establishing a new philosophical framework to understand and evaluate the new art practice known as "place-as-medium".
This new category of art practice creates artworks that deepen our belonging to place, and remake the world, each according to the new forms they bring into being and the unique ways in which they ask us to think through them together. This book shows the ways in which place-as-medium art reshapes the ground of thinking by offering a new reading of the work of Alfredo Jaar through the theories of Jacques Rancière, Gianni Vattimo, and Martin Heidegger. The book advocates for shared authorship exemplified in artworks by Theaster Gates and John Preus that use repair and renovation to rebuild communities, and provides a model for ecological thinking through place-as-medium in a case study of The Swamp School by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas. Additionally, the book includes a CODA for Place-as-Medium as a practical guide for artists to think through place.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, and philosophy.
Kate Farrington conceptualizes a new art form that arises in “thinking through place” toward “mutuality, reciprocity, hospitality, and locality.” A striking new way of thinking about everything, not least, the future of the biosphere, Place-as-Medium could not have appeared at a more prescient moment.
George Smith, Founder and President Emeritus, Edgar E. Coons, Jr. Professor of New Philosophy, Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA)
Kate Farrington is an artist, art theorist, and philosopher, weaving together the Continental philosophical tradition with some strands of Buddhist practice. The extraordinary range and innovation of her thinking illuminates the artform of place-as medium, which activates “thinking through place.” In her topical and profound meditations, the artistic practice of contemporary artists like the Chilean Alfredo Jaar emerge as poignant and rousing responses to the political and ecological exigencies of our global disorder.
Jason M. Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University
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Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION: Place-as-Medium: An Introduction 1. Thinking Through Place: On Alfredo Jaar 2. Boundaries of Place in Alfredo Jaar’s Public Interventions 3. The Play of Places in Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s dOCUMENTA (13 4. Place-as-Medium and the Question of Hospitality5. Towards a Shared Authorship of Place 6. The Swamp School and the Promise of Place-as-Medium as Ecological Thinking APPENDIX: CODA for Place-as-Medium
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