Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher-including notes,
proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and
critics-most published here for the first time. The California
conceptual artist Michael Asher (1943-2012) was known for rigorous
site specificity and pioneering institutional critique. His decades
of teaching at CalArts influenced generations of artists. Much of
Asher's artistic practice was devoted to creating works that had no
lasting material presence and often responded to the material,
social, or ideological context of a situation. Because most of
Asher's artworks have ceased to exist, his writings about them have
special significance. Public Knowledge collects writings by Asher
about his work-including preliminary notes and ideas, project
proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and
critics-most of which have never been previously published. Asher
gave few interviews, didn't write art criticism, and rarely
published extensive accounts of his own work. Yet writing was
central to his artistic practice, serving as a tool for working out
ideas, negotiating institutional parameters, and describing thought
processes. In these texts, he considers writing and documentation,
discusses artistic practice, offers notes for gallery and museum
talks, presents artist statements for exhibition-goers, describes
individual works and their situational context, and reflects on
teaching and art education. Among other things, Asher provides his
definition of site specificity, addresses the function of art in
public space, and analyzes the intersection of teaching art and
institutional models of education. Readers will see an artist at
work, formulating ethical and political strategies for making art
in a situational world.
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