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This exhibition emerged from the INDEPENDENT GROUP which started in 1953 and was a platform to present ideas to the public at the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, London.

Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson would make an excellent learning device, being more case study than airtight time capsule for a now dismantled exhibition. But the book does effectively document Wilsons 1992-93 installation at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, wherein incongruous juxtapositions of museum holdings made Marylands history congruent. The award-winning project is re-created through photographs and a tactic of paper overleafs with rips homologous to t...

What does "community" really mean and what is the artist’s relationship or responsibility to it? What effect, if any, do artists have on various communities or the culture at large?

The formulation of diverse projects has now become the major preoccupation of contemporary man. These days, whatever endeavor one sets out to pursue in the economic, political or cultural field, one first has to formulate a fitting project in order to apply for official approval or funding of the project from one or several public authorities. (...)

texto na Revista número três. "Exposições utilizam preceitos da arte conceitual para dinamizar a circulação e propor debates"

texto de Andreas Müller-Pohle. "Photography – this was my opening thesis – threw the art system of the last century into a crisis involving two contrary criteria, where ultimately, "beauty" was subordinated to "information."