Artists
In Museum Highlights (1989), this artist performed as a museum guide named Jane Castleton.
Who is Andrea Fraser?
This term describes the increasing interconnectedness of economies, cultures, media, and people across national borders.
What is globalism?
Kristeva says this is how abjection creates identity.
What is reasserting the borderof the body?
Hans Haacke's MoMA Poll (1970) asked visitors at the Museum of Modern Art to vote on this socio-political issue.
Would the fact that Governor Rockefeller has not denounced President Nixon's Indochina Policy be a reason for your not voting for him in November?
This artists 1991 piece "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) consisted of one-hundred and seventy-five pounds of hard candies represent the weight of his former lover, Ross Laycock, who died of complications of AIDS
Who is Félix González-Torres ?
This artist used silhouette installations to confront race, violence, and gender in American history.
Who is Kara Walker?
This concept, first popularised by Judith Butler, suggests identity is not fixed essence but repeatedly produced through actions, language, and social norms.
What is performativity?
Marshall McLuhan used this term to describe a world where electronic media (like television, and later the internet) connect people globally, making them feel like neighbors despite physical separation.
What is the Global Village?
The name of Mierle Laderman Ukeles's 1969 manifesto.
What is Maintenance Art Manifesto?
This artist's piece "Dead Dad" is a slighly smaller than human scale hyperreal sculpture of his father's corpse.
Who is Ron Mueck?
This Ghanaian artist is known for bottle-cap tapestry works addressing trade, colonialism, and exchange.
Who is El Anatsui?
A framework for understanding how identities such as race, gender, class, and sexuality overlap to create unique, compounded experiences of discrimination or privilege.
What is intersectionality?
Marina Abramovic borrows this technique from Tibetan Buddhism to achieve her durational performances.
What is meditation?
In 2002 Okwui Enwezor was the first non European curator of this international art fair in Kassel Germany.
What is Documenta?
This artist created Tale (1992) a beeswax sculpture featuring a nude woman on all fours trailing a long rope of faux feces.
Who is Kiki Smith?
This artist displayed his distorted figurative paintings behind glass so that the viewer saw their own reflection in the image.
Who is Francis Bacon?
This sensation describes something strangely familiar yet disturbing, linked to Freud and often paired with abjection.
What is the Uncanny?
Julia Kristeva identifies this as the utmost form of abjection.
What is a corpse?
In Ai Weiwei's “Safe Passage” he covered the entrance of the Minneapolis Institute of Art in this as a way to draw attention to the global refugee crisis.
What are the discarded life jackets of refugees on the journey from Turkey to Greece ?
She made meditative, minimalist paintings featuring intricate grid patterns that were shaped by a deeply spiritual vision.
Who is Agnes Martin?
This chinese artist works in video and multimedia to make work that explores digital identity and contemporary allienation.
Who is Cao Fei?
The dispersion of people from their original homeland, creating separated communities that maintain ties to their origin
What is diaspora?
Describes art that is collaborative, often participatory and comunity driven and involves people as the medium or material of the work.
What is Social Practice?
This piece involved juxtaposing objects from the Marilynd Historical Society to create new narratives, such as placing a Ku Klux Klan hood in a baby carriage or iron shackles with fine silver.
What is Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum (1992)?
This British painter uses unconvensional materials like beads, glitter, lumps of elephant dung and cut-outs from pornographic magazines to make works that explore black identity, religion, myth and cultural history.
Who is Chris Ofili?