Viewing Velocities

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Time in Contemporary Art

By Marcus Verhagen

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Viewing Velocities examines the contemporary art world entangled with the relentless pace of 24/7 capitalism. Marcus Verhagen highlights artists who engage with the high-energy experience economy through inventive DIY performances and large-scale installations, alongside those aligned with the slow movement. Drawing on theorists such as Jonathan Crary, Hartmut Rosa, and Jacques Rancière, the book reveals how contemporary artworks navigate conflicts around history, memory, and labour-time, offering fresh insights into artistic responses to our culture of speed.
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Viewing Velocities is ideal for readers interested in contemporary arts, cultural theory, and social critiques of capitalism's impact on creativity and time. Students, academics, and art enthusiasts exploring the intersections of art, history, and societal change will find this work insightful.

Contemporary art and the culture of speed

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Viewing Velocities explores a contemporary art scene caught in the gears of 24/7 capitalism. It looks at artists who embrace the high-octane experience economy through DIY performance pieces and exhibition-spanning installations, and others who are closer to the slow movement. Marcus Verhagen builds on the writing of theorists Jonathan Crary, Hartmut Rosa, and Jacques Rancière to trace lines of insurgent art that cast struggles over history, memory, and labour-time in novel and revealing lights.

Some of the most compelling contemporary art plays on distinct, often contradictory conceptions of time. From Danh Vo's relics to Moyra Davey's photographs of dust-laden belongings, from shows about waiting and interrupted sleep to Maria Eichhorn's art strike and Ruth Ewan's gigantic reconstruction of the French revolutionary calendar, what makes a good artistic countermotion to our market-driven, tech-supported culture of speed?

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Praised as "compelling and groundbreaking" by Jonathan Crary, the book opens new imaginative possibilities beyond neoliberal constraints. Julian Stallabrass commends it as "a fine reading" of art's relationship with social acceleration, while J.J. Charlesworth notes its "lucid and capacious analysis" of contemporary art's engagement with capitalism's tempo. Malcolm Bull considers Marcus Verhagen among the finest art critics writing today.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839768514

Publisher: Verso Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Verso Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 236g

Pages: 256

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Arts & Culture Marcus Verhagen Non-Fiction

About the Author

Marcus Verhagen is Senior Lecturer at the Sotheby's Institute of Art. He is the author of Flows and Counterflows: Globalisation in Contemporary Art and writes for Art Monthly and New Left Review. He lives in London.