A Sea of Senses

A detailed consideration of the sensory and corporeal engagements invoked by the candy spills of Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996).

This book is a collection of essays published in connection with the Right About Now lecture series which took place in 2006/2007. The book provides an overview of the most significant developments, themes and thinking in art from 1990 until now. It offers critical ways to approach this recent art and to reflect upon it.

Right About Now: Art and Theory since the 1990s (lecture series)
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam | University of Amsterdam | W139
Lecture 3
Wednesday 1 March 2006
The Body
Speakers: Maaike Bleeker (NL), Deborah Cherry (UK)
The installation and performance art of the 1990s focuses on the physical experience of the (participating) spectator and – in some cases – on that of the artist. This results in an accumulation of theoretical texts that focuses on the analysis of notions like ‘the body’ and ‘the abject’ from a psychoanalytical perspective. These readings seem to debate – or even refute – Postmodern thought with its unrestrained conviction in technological innovations and its almost sterile conceptualisation of reality.