Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity: the current sense
of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialisation, mass
politics and consumerism. From Manet onwards, when art represents
the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are
inevitable. And from modernism's retreat into abstraction to
subsequent demands placed on audiences, from the late 1960s to the
present, the viewer's endurance of repetition, slowness or other
forms of monotony has become an anticipated feature of
gallery-going. In contemporary art, boredom is no longer viewed as
a singular experience; rather, it is contingent on diverse social
identifications and cultural positions, and extends from a malign
condition to be struggled against, to an experience to be embraced,
or explored as a site of resistance.In this anthology, the range of
boredoms associated with our neoliberal moment is contextualized in
a long view which encompasses the political critique of boredom in
1960s France; the simultaneous aesthetic embrace in the USA of
silence, repetition or indifference in Fluxus, Pop, Minimalism and
conceptual art; the development of feminist diagnoses of malaise in
art, performance and film; Punk's social critique and its influence
on theories of the postmodern; and the recognition from the end of
the 1980s of a specific form of ennui experienced in former
communist states. Today, with the emergence of new forms of labour
alienation and personal intrusion, deadening forces extend even
further into subjective experience, making the divide between a
critical and an aesthetic use of boredom ever more tenuous.Artists
surveyed include Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, John Baldessari,
Vanessa Beecroft, Bernadette Corporation, John Cage, Critical Art
Ensemble, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Fischli & Weiss,
Claire Fontaine, Dick Higgins, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ilya
Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov, Robert Morris, John Pilson, Sigmar Polke,
Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter,
Situationist International, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Andy Warhol,
Faith Wilding, Janet Zweig.Writers include Ina Blom, Nicolas
Bourriaud, Jennifer Doyle, Alla Efimova, Jonathan Flatley, Julian
Jason Haladyn, The Invisible Committee, Jonathan D. Katz, Chris
Kraus, Tan Lin, Sven Lutticken, John Miller, Agne Narusyte, Sianne
Ngai, Peter Osborne, Patrice Petro, Christine Ross, Moira Roth,
David Foster Wallace, Aleksandr Zinovyev.
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