Documenta Fifteen
Book description
documenta fifteen is no ordinary art exhibition. Envisioned under the guiding concept of lumbung, the Indonesian collective ruangrupa is less concerned with individual works than with models of collaborative practice. The Handbook offers insights and orientation to the processes that evolved in the creation of the exhibition. A comprehensive resource…
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This book chronicles the first major European biennial to be organized by an art collective from the Global South, ruangrupa.
Not only does this handbook catalogue all of the art collectives and artists they invited to participate in this global exhibition, it explains in clear terms what it meant for a collective from Jakarta to move to Germany and take on one of the biggest organizational projects in the art world.
The show proved controversial, for the wrong reasons, but the self-description of the organizers as aliens landing in Kässel to promote an alternative vision of contemporary art (not…
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