History in Ruin: The Reconstructed Aesthetics of Michael Stevenson

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Notes

Notes

1 Hal Foster, Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (Seattle: Bay Press, 1985), 103–4.

2 Glenn Barkley, ‘About the Exhibition’, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011, http://www.mca.com.au/collection/exhibition/553-michael-stevenson/ (accessed March 1, 2016).

3 Michael Taussig, ‘Between Land and Sea’, Das Weltall (Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2011), 5.

4 ‘Michael Stevenson: Persepolis 2530’, Arnolfini, 2008, https://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/michael-stevenson-persepolis-2530 (accessed March 10, 2016).

5 Original emphasis, in Wes Hill, ‘Double fantasy – The artful practice of Michael Stevenson’, Art & Australia 46, no. 3 (Autumn 2009): 464.

6 Brian Dillon, ‘Michel Stevenson’, Frieze 89 (March, 2005): 107.

7 Rex Butler, A Secret History of Australian Art (Sydney: Craftsman House, 2002), 27.

8 Ibid.

9 Ibid., 28.

10 Ibid., 23.

11 Ibid., 24.

12 Ibid., 29.

13 Ibid., 28.

14 Ibid., 26.

15 Ibid.

16 Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), 125.

17 James Meyer, What Happened to the Institutional Critique?, ed. Peter Weibel (New York: American Fine Arts, Co., and Paula Cooper Gallery, Cologne: Dumont, 1993): 239.

18 Ibid., 240

19 Ibid., 242.

20 Ibid., 246.

21 Hal Foster, ‘An Archival Impulse’, October 110 (Fall 2004), 3.

22 Ibid.

23 Ibid., 5.

24 Ibid., 12.

25 Ibid., 22.

26 Ibid., 4.

27 Ibid., 15.

28 Ibid., 21.

29 Ibid., 22.

30 Ibid., 21.

31 Hal Foster, Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency (London: Verso, 2015), 140.

32 Foster, ‘An Archival Impulse’, 20.

33 Ibid., 4.

34 Foster, Bad New Days, 140.

35 Dieter Roelstraete, ‘The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art’, eflux journal 4 (March 2009), http://www.e-flux.com/journal/the-way-of-the-shovel-on-the-archeological-imaginary-in-art/ (accessed August 5, 2015).

36 Ibid.

37 Ibid.

38 Ibid.

39 Ibid.

40 Dieter Roelstraete, ‘After the Historiographic Turn: Current Findings’, eflux journal 6 (May 2009), http://www.e-flux.com/journal/06/61402/after-the-historiographic-turn-current-findings/, (accessed August 5, 2015).

41 Christine Ross, The Past is the Present; it's the Future Too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art (New York: Continuum, 2012), 144.

42 Ibid., 158.

43 Ibid., 6.

44 Claire Bishop, Radical Museology (Cologne: Walther Konig, 2014), 76.

45 Johannes Hofer, ‘Medical Dissertation on Nostalgia’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2 ([1688] 1934): 386.

46 Roelstraete, ‘After the Historiographic Turn’.

47 Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001), xvii.

48 Ibid., xv.

49 Ibid., xvii.

50 Ibid.

51 Svetlana Boym, ‘Ruins of the Avant-Garde’, in Ruins of Modernity, ed. Julia Hell (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010), 58.

52 Georg Simmel, ‘The Ruin’, in Essays on Sociology, Philosophy and Aesthetics, ed. Kurt H. Wolff (NY: Harper and Row, 1965), 262.

53 Brian Dillon, ‘Fragments from a History of Ruin’, Cabinet 20 (Winter 2005/06): 11.

54 Ibid., 11.

55 Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969 [1972]), 127

56 Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (New York: Routledge, 1968 [1989]), xxii.

57 Terry Smith, ‘Questionnaire on the Contemporary’, October 130 (Fall 2009), 47.

58 Ibid., 48.

59 Terry Smith, What is Contemporary Art? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 269.

60 Terry Smith. ‘Contemporary Art and Contemporaneity’, Critical Inquiry 32 (2006): 706.

61 Ross, The Past is the Present, 14.

62 Smith, ‘Questionnaire on the Contemporary’, 48.

63 Jacques Rancière, Aesthetics and Its Discontents, trans. Steven Cochran (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009), 45.

64 Jacques Rancière, ‘Aesthetics against Incarnation: An Interview by Anne Marie Oliver’, Critical Inquiry, Autumn (2008): 181.