Full Description
In the 1990s and 2000s, contemporary art in India changed radically in form, as an art world once dominated by painting began to support installation, new media, and performance. In response to the liberalization of India's economy, art was cultivated by a booming market as well as by new nonprofit institutions that combined strong local roots and transnational connections. The result was an unprecedented efflorescence of contemporary art and growth of a network of institutions radiating out from India.
Among the first studies of contemporary South Asian art, Infrastructure and Form engages with sixteen of India's leading contemporary artists and art collectives to examine what made this development possible. Karin Zitzewitz articulates the connections among formal trajectories of medium and material, curatorial frames and networks of circulation, and the changing conditions of everyday life after economic liberalization. By untangling the complex interactions of infrastructure and form, the book offers a discussion of the barriers and conduits that continue to shape global contemporary art and its relationship to capital more broadly.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Feminist Networks, New Biennials,and Performance
2. Painting and the Image Condition at the Millennium
3. Materiality, Ephemerality, Haptics
4. Language, the Documentary, and Art in a Discursive Mode
5. Infrastructure, Collaboration, and the Cut
Conclusion: Infrastructure Is Not (Only) a Metaphor
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
