ALMOST NOTHING

What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which the lights go on and off every fiv e seconds? This book argues that they are both examples of a 'precarious' art that flourished from the late 1950s to the first decad e of the twenty-first century, in light of a growing awareness of the individual's fragile existence in capitalist society.Focusing on comparative case studies drawn from European, North and South American practices, this study maps out a network of similar concer ns and pr...[Read more]