Crisis as Form

How does contemporary art respond to social crises? Contemporary art criticism is split by an opposition between activism and the critical function of form. Yet the deeper, subterranean terms of art-judgement are largely neglected on both sides of the debate. These essays combine a re-examination of the terms of judgement used in contemporary art with critical interpretations of individual works and exhibitions by Luis Camnitzer, Marcel Duchamp, Matias Faldbakken, Anne Imhof and Cady Noland...