Beyond the Instance of an Ending and Martha Rosler’s Library: A Eflux project in collaboration with Martha Rosler
Herter Art Gallery
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
November 5-December 10, 2009
As art editors of the journal Rethinking Marxism, Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia have brought together two projects: Martha Rosler Library and Beyond the Instance of an Ending. Envisioning education as a social movement, as theorized by Antonio Gramsci, W.E.B Du Bois, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, these exhibitions provide a context for dialogue, one that imagines a new readership.
The Martha Rosler Library comprises more than 7,000 volumes selected from Rosler’s residence and studio in Brooklyn and academic office in New Jersey. Its contents range from political theory, art history and poetry to science fiction, mystery and children's books; they include periodicals, dictionaries, maps and travel books, as well as photo albums, posters, postcards and newspaper clippings.
In response to the concept of libraries, archives, collections and books, the artists in the exhibition Beyond the Instance of an Ending offer alternative approaches to discourse and the restructuring of affect. Their works engage a politics of becoming; a process of rereading, recombining and revisioning - what are the potentialities of these engagements?
List of Contributing Artists and Writers
e-flux in collaboration with Martha Rosler, Eric Anglès & John Martin Widger, Sarah Beddington, Alexis Bhagat, Robert Blake, Pradeep Dalal, Yevgeniy Fiks, Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida, Susan Jahoda, Jesal Kapadia, Young Min Moon, Sreshta Premnath, Harout Simonian and Claudia Sohrens.
