Group Works: Art, Politics, and Collective Ambivalence

An exciting new reflection on the role of artistic collaboration, collectivism, and the politics of group formation in the neoliberal era.

The artist and author Ethan Philbrick’s Group Works re-imagines the group by undertaking an historiographic archaeology of group aesthetics and politics.

Written against both phobic and romantic accounts of collectivity, Group Works contends that the group emerges as a medium for artists when established forms of collective life break down. Philbrick pairs...