Escape the Overcode
Activist Art in the Control Society
Brian Holmes

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Author(s)

Brian Holmes

Publication

Eindhoven : Van Abbemuseum, 2009

Scope

414 Pages, illustrated, 20 cm.

ISBN

9789070149987

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The backdrop against which art now stands out is a particular state of society. What an installation, a performance, a concept or a mediated image can do is to mark out a possible or real shift with respect to the laws, the mores, the technical and organizational devices that define how we must behave and how we may relate to each other at a given time and in a given place. What we look for in art is a different way to live, a fresh chance at coexistence.

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Keywords

surveillance , various disciplines , activism

Location

Cabinet 31 - 5: Kunst en engagement

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment, Surveillance, Security, Fear