Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats
Jonathon Keats’ work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities—from the absurd to the profound. Since the turn of the millennium, Keats has comprehensively extended his academic training in philosophy by prolifically presenting conceptual art projects that he refers to as “thought experiments.” These include installations and performances in museums and galleries around the globe. His motivations are to make space for exploring ideas, offering provocations, and confronting systems we generally take for granted. By prototyping alternative realities—systematically asking “what if?”—these projects probe the world in which we live, exploring the potential for societal change.
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Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats
Jonathon Keats’ work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities—from the absurd to the profound. Since the turn of the millennium, Keats has comprehensively extended his academic training in philosophy by prolifically presenting conceptual art projects that he refers to as “thought experiments.” These include installations and performances in museums and galleries around the globe. His motivations are to make space for exploring ideas, offering provocations, and confronting systems we generally take for granted. By prototyping alternative realities—systematically asking “what if?”—these projects probe the world in which we live, exploring the potential for societal change.
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Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats

Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats

Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats

Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats

Overview

Jonathon Keats’ work as an artist and thinker is compelling for our time. Keats poses critical questions, asks us to fundamentally reconsider our assumptions, and proposes radical methods of response. In a time when the environment and human lifeways are experiencing unprecedented change, thought leaders like Keats are needed to encourage us to consider possibilities—from the absurd to the profound. Since the turn of the millennium, Keats has comprehensively extended his academic training in philosophy by prolifically presenting conceptual art projects that he refers to as “thought experiments.” These include installations and performances in museums and galleries around the globe. His motivations are to make space for exploring ideas, offering provocations, and confronting systems we generally take for granted. By prototyping alternative realities—systematically asking “what if?”—these projects probe the world in which we live, exploring the potential for societal change.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783777434278
Publisher: Hirmer Publishers
Publication date: 06/15/2021
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author


Julie Decker is director and CEO of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. She has curated numerous exhibitions and authored and edited publications on contemporary art, architecture, and the environment.


Alla Efimova is the founder and principal of KunstWorks. 

Table of Contents

An Introduction That Cannot Be Titled Bruce Sterling 8

Principled Uncertainty Julie Decker 18

The Living Words of Jonathon Keats Ariane Koek 32

Jonathon Keats and the Affordances of Art Edward Tenner 44

Heroic Futility Michael John Gorman 52

Part I Twenty Projects 58

Introduction and Critical Commentary Alla Efimova

Part II Twenty Protocols 252

Introduction and Protocols Jonathon Keats

Part III Future Experiments / Experimental Futures 296

Introduction William L. Fox

Recalibrating Civilization Jonathon Keats 314

Interview with Jonathon Keats Julie Decker Alla Efimova 334

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