James Voorhies,
James Voorhies,
Yomna Osman,
et al.Judit Navratil, Efe Ozmen, Preston Fox, Maddie Klett, Jillian Crochet, Palija Shrestha, Bianca Moran, Yoko Tahara, [1 More...]
Documenta 11: An Exhibition in Three Acts was collectively written and performed by graduate students enrolled in James Voorhies’s spring 2018 graduate course Binding Agents: Toward an Aesthetic of the Postcolonial in Contemporary Exhibition at California College of the Arts. The script was written by culling parts of seminal texts on the discourse around Documenta 11, Magiciens de la Terre, postcolonial studies, and critical theory.
Documenta 11 unleashed a discourse led by artists, curators and institutions in contemporary art to re-write and re-address colonial histories. The exhibition as a delineable thing, a form, with political potential to change perspectives and increase ...