[nettime-fr] Museum Highlights, The Writings of Andrea Fraser, Edited by Alexander Alberro, préface de Pierre Bourdieu

[gilbert quélennec <quelennec@tele2.fr>]

Sur Andrea Fraser, voir les travaux d'Inès Champey, par ex:  
http://www.ilfautlefaire.org/1999_exp_debat26juin.htm
et de Andrea Fraser en français : "Citer, disent les Kabyles, c'est  
ressusciter", in Rencontres avec Pierre Bourdieu, (Textes rassemblés  
par Gérard Mauger) Éditions du Croquant, 2005, p.177-183.

Gilbert Quélennec



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Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his preface to Museum  
Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine  
infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to  
reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the  
social role it sets out to critique -- as in a performance piece in  
which she leads a tour as a museum docent and describes the men's room  
in the same elevated language that she uses to describe  
seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Influenced by the  
interdisciplinarity of postmodernism, Fraser's interventionist art  
draws on four primary artistic and intellectual frameworks --  
institutional critique, with its site-specific examination of cultural  
context; performance; feminism, with its investigation of identity  
formation; and Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. Fraser's writings form  
an integral part of her artistic practice, and this collection of texts  
written between 1985 and 2003 -- including the performance script for  
the docent's tour that gives the book its title -- both documents and  
represents her work.

  The writings in Museum Highlights are arranged to reflect different  
aspects of Fraser's artistic practice. They include essays that trace  
the development of critical "artistic practice" as cultural resistance;  
performance scripts that explore art institutions and the public  
sphere; and texts that explore the ambivalent relationship of art to  
the economic and political interests of its time. The final piece,  
"Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim  
Bilbao)," reflects on the role of museums in an era of globalization.  
Among the book's 30 illustrations are stills from performance pieces,  
some never before published.

  Alexander Alberro is Associate Professor of Art History at the  
University of Florida.




 
 
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