The aesthetics of risk2008

"Edited and introduced by John C. Welchman, The Aesthetics of Risk is based on the third SoCCAS symposia, held at the J Paul Getty Museum in 2006. The anthology collects 16 essays and conversations about the nature and consequences of risk in and out of the art world, beginning with the premise that the modern subject is caught up in an ever-expanding network of predictive and proactive stratagems for the management of risk. Discussion includes general issues in the relation between risk and modernity (Welchman, Gerda Reith); a case study from the Occupied Territories in the Middle East (Neve Gordon and Dani File); Andy Warhol's films (Douglas Crimp); several arenas and strategies for activist practice (Keiko Sei and Chris Hill, Critical Art Ensemble); social and aesthetic contexts for...