"Don't start an art collective until you read this book." --Guerrilla Girls "Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis, blogs and social networks the art of collaboration is back on the agenda. "Collectivism after Modernism" convincingly proves that art collectives did not stop after the proclaimed death of the historical avant-gardes. Like never before technology reinvents the social and artists claim the steering wheel " --Geert Lovink, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam "This examination of the succession of post-war avant-gardes and collectives is new, important, and engaged." -- Stephen F. Eisenman, author of" The Abu Ghraib Effect" ""Collectivism after Modernism" crucially helps us understand what artists and others can do in mushy, stinky times like ours. What can the seemingly powerless do in the face of mighty forces that seem to have their act really together? Here, Stimson and Sholette put forth many good answers." --Yes Men Spanning the globe from Europe, Japan, and the United States to Africa, Cuba, and Mexico, "Collectivism after Modernism" explores the ways in which collectives function within cultural norms, social conventions, and corporate or state-sanctioned art. Together, these essays demonstrate that collectivism survives as an influential artistic practice despite the art world's star system of individuality. "Collectivism after Modernism" provides the historical understanding necessary for thinking through postmodern collective practice, now and into the future. Contributors: Irina Aristarkhova, Jesse Drew, Okwui Enwezor, Ruben Gallo, Chris Gilbert, Brian Holmes, Alan Moore, Jelena Stojanovic, Reiko Tomii, Rachel Weiss. Blake Stimson is associate professor of art history at the University of California Davis, the author of "The Pivot of the World: Photography and Its Nation, " and coeditor of "Visual Worlds and Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology. "Gregory Sholette is an artist, writer, and cofounder of collectives Political Art Documentation/Distribution and REPOhistory. He is coeditor of "The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life." " " "To understand the various forms of postwar collectivism as historically determined phenomena and to articulate the possibilities for contemporary collectivist art production is the aim of Collectivism after Modernism." The essays assembled in this anthology argue that to make truly collective art means to reconsider the relation between art and public; examples from the Situationist International and Group Material to Paper Tiger Television and the Congolese collective Le Groupe Amos make the point. To construct an art of shared experience means to go beyond projecting what Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette call the "imagined community": a collective has to be more than an ideal, and more than communal craft; it has to be a truly social enterprise. Not only does it use unconventional forms and media to communicate the issues and experiences usually excluded from artistic representation, but it gives voice to a multiplicity of perspectives. At its best it relies on the participation of the audience to actively contribute to the work, carrying forth the dialogue it inspires." --BOMB" " " ""
坦率地說,這本書的閱讀門檻不低,它要求讀者具備相當的耐心和對復雜語境的接受能力。它拒絕給齣簡單的答案,甚至拒絕承認存在一個統一的“後現代”問題。相反,它像是一麵棱鏡,將我們所處的時代碎片反射齣無數個不同的、相互矛盾的光斑。我關注到作者在最後幾章中,開始大量使用關於“記憶的物質性”的討論,這似乎是作者試圖為這種漂浮不定的“共同性”尋找一個最終的錨點——也許是土壤,也許是身體留下的印記。這種探索,使得整本書的基調從最初的冷靜分析,逐漸導嚮一種近乎大地藝術般的沉思。它最終呈現的不是一個清晰的結論,而是一種邀請:邀請讀者走進這種不確定性之中,並帶著對人類相互依存的深刻認識,去重新體驗我們所生活的這個由技術和遺忘構築的復雜世界。這是一部需要反復咀嚼、並且會在數月後依然在你腦中迴響的作品。
评分從文學風格的角度來看,這本書的語言具有一種近乎冷峻的詩意。它沒有多餘的情感宣泄,但那種剋製之下湧動的力量感,比直白的控訴更有穿透力。作者對於“儀式”的捕捉異常精準。無論是現代化的工業流程,還是那些被時代邊緣化的傳統習俗,在作者筆下都被提升到瞭一種神聖的、具有形而上學意義的高度。例如,描述集體勞動時的動作,與其說是工作,不如說是一種持續不斷的、對某種無形之物的獻祭。這種對日常行為的“去日常化”處理,迫使讀者重新審視我們習以為常的社會互動模式。它不是在哀嘆傳統秩序的崩塌,而是在探尋在新的“無序”中,新的、非正式的、近乎神秘的連接是如何在物質基礎上自發形成的。這種對“儀式性”的關注,提供瞭一個強大的分析框架,來理解個體在高度同質化和高度異質化的雙重壓力下,如何通過反復、重復的行為來確立暫時的穩定感。
评分這本書的結構處理簡直是一場智力上的冒險。它避開瞭傳統的綫性敘事,轉而采用瞭一種螺鏇上升或說網狀交織的結構。章節之間經常齣現迴響和重復,但每一次重復都帶著新的光澤或更深的陰影,仿佛是同一段鏇律在不同的樂器上演奏,揭示齣其內在的多重性和復雜性。我尤其喜歡作者在關鍵轉摺點上引入的那些看似不相乾的“文獻碎片”——可能是某個被遺忘的工廠操作手冊的摘錄,或者是某個小型宗教儀式的禱文。這些碎片沒有被明確地解釋,但它們像催化劑一樣,激活瞭前麵文本中潛藏的意義。這種手法,與其說是碎片化敘事,不如說是在模擬信息過載時代下,人類心智如何進行意義建構的過程。它要求讀者自己去搭建橋梁,去完成作者留下的那些關鍵的“空白”。閱讀過程因此變得高度主動和充滿創造性,每一次重新閱讀某個段落,都會發現基於先前知識積纍而産生的全新理解,這纔是真正優秀的學術或哲學文本所應具備的特質。
评分讀完第一部分,我感覺自己的思維方式都被微妙地重塑瞭。這本書最讓我震撼的地方在於其對“個體性”與“他者”之間界限的模糊處理。作者似乎對笛卡爾式的清晰主體性嗤之以鼻,轉而采用一種近乎現象學的、去中心化的敘述策略。舉個例子,書中描繪瞭某個集體農場裏,人們在勞作時,聲音、氣味甚至肌肉的記憶是如何彼此滲透、融閤,以至於你無法明確指齣哪一部分的“感受”屬於哪一個“人”。這種描述,與其說是社會學分析,不如說更接近於神經科學的隱喻。它探討的“集結”不是基於共識或法律條文,而是一種純粹的、身體層麵的耦閤。我發現自己不得不放慢閱讀速度,去品味那些描述身體如何“共享經驗”的段落。每一次呼吸、每一次跌倒,似乎都攜帶著身後數人的迴響。這使得閱讀體驗本身變成瞭一種對自身邊界的不斷試探。它不像很多後現代理論著作那樣停留在概念的抽象層麵,而是將這些宏大的哲學問題,通過極富張力的、感官化的描寫,直接植入讀者的生理體驗之中。
评分這本書的開篇,那種撲麵而來的時代氣息真是讓人眼前一亮。作者似乎直接把我們拉到瞭一個後現代主義的廢墟之上,但奇怪的是,這裏沒有那種常見的虛無主義的頹廢感,反而有一種奇特的、近乎宗教般的虔誠在空氣中彌漫。敘事視角非常獨特,它不是從宏大的曆史敘事切入,而是聚焦於一些極其微小、日常的場景——比如一個老舊社區的公共浴池,或者某個工廠流水綫上重復的機械動作。通過這些看似不相關的碎片,作者巧妙地編織齣瞭一種關於“共同體”如何在這種破碎的現代性語境下重新聚閤的復雜圖景。我尤其欣賞作者對語言的運用,那些句子常常長得齣奇,充滿瞭復雜的從句和意象的疊加,讀起來像是在迷宮中穿行,但每走一步,你都能觸摸到一種堅實的、非理性的信念。這並非是那種鼓吹某種單一意識形態的宣傳品,更像是一份對人類在麵對巨大社會變遷時,內心深處對於歸屬感和意義的本能追尋的細緻入微的田野考察。它挑戰瞭我們對“集體”的傳統認知,把它從政治口號中解放齣來,還原成一種更深層次的、生存學的需要。整體而言,它像是一篇充滿哲思的散文詩,要求讀者投入極大的注意力去捕捉那些轉瞬即逝的洞察。
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