Sven Spieker Books
The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy
By Sven Spieker
"The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer need...
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By Sven Spieker
The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art.The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of...
Read MoreDestruction
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Essays explore contemporary artists' engagement with destruction, and how it has disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions.The effects and meanings of destruction are c...
Read MoreArt as Demonstration
By Sven Spieker
How artists wield demonstration to question the status quo both aesthetically and politically, marshaling art and education as powerful agents of change.Demonstration, in short, says: See here. It...
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