Nervous Systems

Foreword / Judith Rodenbeck vii
Acknowledgments ix
After the Breakdown: Sixty Years of Systems Art / Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott 1
Section I: Systems Aesthetics to Systems Politics
1. Jack Burnham Redux: Reappraising System Aesthetics / Luke Skrebowski 31
2. The Artist as "Weatherman": Hans Haacke's Critical Meteorology / John Tyson 55
3. Desalineación: Open Systems as Social Transformation in Tucumán Arde / Christine Filippone 78
Section II: Nervous Interfaces
4. The Irresolutions of Charles Gaines / Kris Cohen 103
5. Light and Space as Institutional Critique / Dawna Schuld 125
6. One among Many: Experiencing Complexity in Participatory Art Systems / Cristina Albu 148
Section III: The Contemporary Art World Described as a System
7. Abstraction, Dispersion, Deflation, and Noise: Liam Gillick's Disappointing Systems / Francis Halsall 173
8. Aesthetic Action as Planetary Praxis: Mel Chin's The Arctic Is. / Amanda Boetzkes 192
9. Mapping, SEA STATE, and State Violence on the Shores of Singapore / Brianne Cohen 213
10. Toward Infrastructure Art: Containerization, Black Box Logistics, and New Distribution Complexes / Jaimey Hamilton Faris 235
Selected Bibliography 261
Contributors 277
Index 281