A reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid-twentieth century
Gavin Butt Livres
Le travail de Gavin Butt explore l'intersection de l'art et de la performance expérimentaux avec les formes culturelles populaires. Il examine de manière critique la performance de club queer, la culture post-punk et le paysage plus large de l'art vivant et de la performance. Les travaux de Butt montrent comment ces expressions vibrantes défient et remodèlent notre compréhension des pratiques théâtrales et performatives. Sa recherche offre une perspective distinctive sur l'interaction dynamique entre les mouvements artistiques d'avant-garde et la culture de masse.
Gavin Butt tells the story of the post-punk scene in the northern English city of Leeds, showing how bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget drew on their university art school education to push the boundaries of pop music.
Seriousness
- 83pages
- 3 heures de lecture
The contemporary art world has become more inhospitable to "serious" intellectual activity in recent years. Critical discourse has been increasingly instrumentalized in the service of neoliberal art markets and institutions, and artists are pressurized by the demands of popularity and funding bodies. Set against this context, Gavin Butt and Irit Rogoff raise the question of "seriousness" in art and culture. What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures? Butt and Rogoff reflect on such questions through historical and theoretical lenses, and explore whether or not it might be possible to pursue knowledge and value in contemporary culture without recourse to high-brow gravitas. Can certain art forms--such as performance art--suggest ways in which we might be intelligent without being serious? And can one be serious in the art world without returning to established assumptions about the high-mindedness of the public intellectual? Copublished with Goldsmiths, University of London