NEOMATERIALISM

In this absorbing theoretical manifesto, Israeli curator Joshua Simon argues that we have moved into an economy of neomaterialism.De spite the rhetoric of dematerialization in art practices since the 1960s, the embodiment of materiality has actually just shifted: t he focus of labor has moved from production to consumption, the commodity has become the historical subject and symbols now behave l ike materials. Here, Simon advocates for the unreadymade, sentimental value and the promise of the individual as a means for a vocab ulary in...[Read more]