A reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid-twentieth century
Gavin Butt Boeken
Het werk van Gavin Butt duikt in de kruising van experimentele kunst en performance met populaire cultuurvormen. Hij onderzoekt kritisch queer clubperformance, post-punkcultuur en het bredere landschap van live art en performance art. Butt's onderzoek belicht hoe deze levendige uitingen ons begrip van theatrale en performatieve praktijken uitdagen en herdefiniëren. Zijn onderzoek biedt een onderscheidende lens op de dynamische wisselwerking tussen avant-gardistische artistieke bewegingen en massacultuur.
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
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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