Event overview
‘A depressing, anesthetizing triviality seeps into everything when art becomes a question of proper institutional gambits clad in professional intellectual decoration. You feel sick. You feel superfluous. You begin to suspect that all of your actions are really the fruition of a second-rate ambition to fulfill an appropriately “critical” or “provocative” role in the distribution and analysis of culture. For nearly a half century, in varied guises and manifestations, Art & Language has been dedicated to resisting this process of trivialization.’ (Matthew Jesse Jackson, If You Were Art & Language, Then You’d Be A Fucking Decent Contemporary Artist, 2013)
The name Art & Language was first adopted in 1968, to refer to a collaborative practice that had developed over the previous two years between Michael Baldwin and Terry Atkinson, in association with David Bainbridge and Harold Hurrell. Over the next several years it stood for a collaborative practice with a growing and changing membership associated with the journal Art-Language, first published in May 1969, and subsequently with a second journal The Fox, which was published in New York in 1975-6. Joseph Kosuth was invited to act as American editor of Art-Language in 1969. In the following year Mel Ramsden and Ian Burn merged their separate collaboration with Art & Language. Charles Harrison became editor of Art-Language in 1971. By the mid 1970s some 20 people were associated with the name, divided between England and New York. From 1976, however, the genealogical thread of Art & Language’s artistic work was taken solely into the hands of Baldwin and Ramsden, with the theoretical and critical collaboration of these two with Charles Harrison who died in 2009.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Feb 2014 | 6:15pm - 8:00pm |
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