T J Demos
Biographic Data
| ID | 909694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T J Demos |
| GIVEN NAMES | T J |
| FAMILY NAME | Demos |
| SIGNATURE | DEMOS T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On Documenta 15
Rebeliões de extinção
O presente artigo analisa como diferentes grupos ambientalistas encaram questões de justiça climática e desigualdades raciais em face da emergência climática e da emergência do Antropoceno, apresentando produções artísticas que mobilizam questões afins
What is Radical
What does it mean to think and act radically, and how does this relate to forms of radicalism connected to earlier moments, for example, in the 20th century? What can be the role of radical art and scholarship under the conditions of late capitalism? More generally, how can art and artists serve the ongoing struggle for social justice and the agendas of emancipatory social change? Finally, what kinds of art criticism and art historical scholarshi…
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change
Undisciplining visual studies
There appears to be a certain anxiety expressed in the present questionnaire about the institutional status of visual studies. Visual studies’ academic legitimacy and intellectual integrity seem pr
Beyond the World's End: Arts of Living at the Crossing
Penny Siopis’s Film Fables
Penny Siopis's Obscure White Messenger (2010) tells the story of Dimitrio Tsafendas, the man who assassinated South African Prime Minister HF Verwoerd in 1966. The film combines samples of found home-movie footage, a mixed soundtrack, and text that runs over the images like subtitles, relaying the story. From this text, we learn that the architect of apartheid was stabbed to death in Parliament by Tsafendas, who had been employed there as an offi…
Between Rebel Creativity and Reification: For and Against Visual Activism
Examining the advantages and limitations of the term ‘visual activism’, this article considers three case studies: the artist–activist work of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a France-based collective dedicated to rebel creativity as part of the alter-globalization struggle for a world of economic equality, environmental sustainability, and social justice; the Grupo de Investigation en Arte y Politica (GIAP), until recently based i…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis
Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis
The Art and Politics of Ecology in India: A Roundtable with Ravi Agarwal and Sanjay Kak
This roundtable discussion with artist and activist Ravi Agarwal and film-maker and photographer Sanjay Kak, moderated by T J Demos, explores the politics of ecology in the Indian context. The conversation considers, among other works, Kak's film Words on Water (2002), which looks at the issue of big dams and their negative social-economic effects in the Narmada valley; and Agarwal's photographic installation Extinction, which examines the disapp…
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology: An Introduction
This special issue of Third Text, dedicated to contemporary art and the politics of ecology, investigates the intersection of art criticism, politico-ecological theory, environmental activism and postcolonial globalization.The focus is on practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics that have emerged in recent years in geopolitical areas as diverse as the Arctic, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Europe and Mexico.The numerous contributors address ne…
Dada’s Event: Paris, 1921
Moving Images of Globalization
October 01 2009 Moving Images of Globalization T.J. Demos T.J. Demos T.J. Demos is Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. Recently the author of “The Politics of Sustainability: Contemporary Art and Ecology” for the Barbican's Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, 1969–2009, he is currently a Fellow at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts in Brussels, where he is working on a new …
The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum
August 01 2009 The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum T. J. Demos T. J. Demos T. J. Demos is a critic and Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. The author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), Demos has written essays on modern and contemporary art for international journals such as Artforum, Art Journal, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst, as well as numerous exhibition catalogue…
Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign
October 01 2008 Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign T.J. Demos T.J. Demos T.J. Demos is a critic and a lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. The author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), his essays on modern and contemporary art have appeared in journals such as Artforum, Art Journal, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst. Search for other works by this author on: This…
Life Full of Holes
The Art of Darkness: On Steve McQueen
October 01 2005 The Art of Darkness: On Steve McQueen T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2005 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 October (2005) (114): 61–89. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228705774889583 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Ic…
The Cruel Dialectic: On the Work of Nils Norman
Circulations: In and Around Zurich Dada
July 01 2003 Circulations: In and Around Zurich Dada T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (105): 147–158. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703769684245 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: Between Institutional Acculturation and Geopolitical Displacement
July 01 2002 Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: Between Institutional Acculturation and Geopolitical Displacement T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2002 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Grey Room (2002) (8): 6–37. https://doi.org/10.1162/15263810260201580 Cite Icon Cite Permissions…
Duchamp's Labyrinth: First Papers of Surrealism, 1942
July 01 2001 Duchamp's Labyrinth: First Papers of Surrealism, 1942 T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2001 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 October (2001) (97): 91–119. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2001.97.1.91 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter Linke…
Duchamp's Labyrinth: "First Papers of Surrealism", 1942
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology: An Introduction
This special issue of Third Text, dedicated to contemporary art and the politics of ecology, investigates the intersection of art criticism, politico-ecological theory, environmental activism and postcolonial globalization.The focus is on practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics that have emerged in recent years in geopolitical areas as diverse as the Arctic, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Europe and Mexico.The numerous contributors address ne…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum
August 01 2009 The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum T. J. Demos T. J. Demos T. J. Demos is a critic and Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. The author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), Demos has written essays on modern and contemporary art for international journals such as Artforum, Art Journal, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst, as well as numerous exhibition catalogue…
The Art of Darkness: On Steve McQueen
October 01 2005 The Art of Darkness: On Steve McQueen T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2005 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 October (2005) (114): 61–89. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228705774889583 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Ic…
Moving Images of Globalization
October 01 2009 Moving Images of Globalization T.J. Demos T.J. Demos T.J. Demos is Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. Recently the author of “The Politics of Sustainability: Contemporary Art and Ecology” for the Barbican's Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, 1969–2009, he is currently a Fellow at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts in Brussels, where he is working on a new …
Life Full of Holes
The Cruel Dialectic: On the Work of Nils Norman
Circulations: In and Around Zurich Dada
July 01 2003 Circulations: In and Around Zurich Dada T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (105): 147–158. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703769684245 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: Between Institutional Acculturation and Geopolitical Displacement
July 01 2002 Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: Between Institutional Acculturation and Geopolitical Displacement T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2002 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Grey Room (2002) (8): 6–37. https://doi.org/10.1162/15263810260201580 Cite Icon Cite Permissions…
Duchamp's Labyrinth: "First Papers of Surrealism", 1942
Duchamp's Labyrinth: First Papers of Surrealism, 1942
July 01 2001 Duchamp's Labyrinth: First Papers of Surrealism, 1942 T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2001 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2001 October (2001) (97): 91–119. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo.2001.97.1.91 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter Linke…
Duchamp's Labyrinth: "First Papers of Surrealism", 1942
Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: Between Institutional Acculturation and Geopolitical Displacement
July 01 2002 Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise: Between Institutional Acculturation and Geopolitical Displacement T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-0105 Print Issn: 1526-3819 © 2002 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2002 Grey Room (2002) (8): 6–37. https://doi.org/10.1162/15263810260201580 Cite Icon Cite Permissions…
The Cruel Dialectic: On the Work of Nils Norman
Circulations: In and Around Zurich Dada
July 01 2003 Circulations: In and Around Zurich Dada T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2003 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2003 October (2003) (105): 147–158. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228703769684245 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
The Art of Darkness: On Steve McQueen
October 01 2005 The Art of Darkness: On Steve McQueen T. J. Demos T. J. Demos Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information T. J. Demos Online Issn: 1536-013X Print Issn: 0162-2870 © 2005 October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 October (2005) (114): 61–89. https://doi.org/10.1162/016228705774889583 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Views Ic…
Life Full of Holes
Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign
October 01 2008 Means without End: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri's Camp Campaign T.J. Demos T.J. Demos T.J. Demos is a critic and a lecturer in the Department of Art History, University College London. The author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), his essays on modern and contemporary art have appeared in journals such as Artforum, Art Journal, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst. Search for other works by this author on: This…
Dada’s Event: Paris, 1921
Moving Images of Globalization
October 01 2009 Moving Images of Globalization T.J. Demos T.J. Demos T.J. Demos is Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. Recently the author of “The Politics of Sustainability: Contemporary Art and Ecology” for the Barbican's Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, 1969–2009, he is currently a Fellow at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts in Brussels, where he is working on a new …
The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum
August 01 2009 The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum T. J. Demos T. J. Demos T. J. Demos is a critic and Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. The author of The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007), Demos has written essays on modern and contemporary art for international journals such as Artforum, Art Journal, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst, as well as numerous exhibition catalogue…
The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis
Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis
The Art and Politics of Ecology in India: A Roundtable with Ravi Agarwal and Sanjay Kak
This roundtable discussion with artist and activist Ravi Agarwal and film-maker and photographer Sanjay Kak, moderated by T J Demos, explores the politics of ecology in the Indian context. The conversation considers, among other works, Kak's film Words on Water (2002), which looks at the issue of big dams and their negative social-economic effects in the Narmada valley; and Agarwal's photographic installation Extinction, which examines the disapp…
Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology: An Introduction
This special issue of Third Text, dedicated to contemporary art and the politics of ecology, investigates the intersection of art criticism, politico-ecological theory, environmental activism and postcolonial globalization.The focus is on practices and discourses of eco-aesthetics that have emerged in recent years in geopolitical areas as diverse as the Arctic, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Europe and Mexico.The numerous contributors address ne…
Between Rebel Creativity and Reification: For and Against Visual Activism
Examining the advantages and limitations of the term ‘visual activism’, this article considers three case studies: the artist–activist work of the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a France-based collective dedicated to rebel creativity as part of the alter-globalization struggle for a world of economic equality, environmental sustainability, and social justice; the Grupo de Investigation en Arte y Politica (GIAP), until recently based i…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Penny Siopis’s Film Fables
Penny Siopis's Obscure White Messenger (2010) tells the story of Dimitrio Tsafendas, the man who assassinated South African Prime Minister HF Verwoerd in 1966. The film combines samples of found home-movie footage, a mixed soundtrack, and text that runs over the images like subtitles, relaying the story. From this text, we learn that the architect of apartheid was stabbed to death in Parliament by Tsafendas, who had been employed there as an offi…
Beyond the World's End: Arts of Living at the Crossing
What is Radical
What does it mean to think and act radically, and how does this relate to forms of radicalism connected to earlier moments, for example, in the 20th century? What can be the role of radical art and scholarship under the conditions of late capitalism? More generally, how can art and artists serve the ongoing struggle for social justice and the agendas of emancipatory social change? Finally, what kinds of art criticism and art historical scholarshi…
The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change
Undisciplining visual studies
There appears to be a certain anxiety expressed in the present questionnaire about the institutional status of visual studies. Visual studies’ academic legitimacy and intellectual integrity seem pr
On Documenta 15
Rebeliões de extinção
O presente artigo analisa como diferentes grupos ambientalistas encaram questões de justiça climática e desigualdades raciais em face da emergência climática e da emergência do Antropoceno, apresentando produções artísticas que mobilizam questões afins
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