Paperback. Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauers 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)with its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptionsand her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London (2025). Both these contributions engage with the historical context of the cultural scene in mid-18th-century London, when the first public presentation of contemporary art took place. In a setting inextricably entangled with early capitalism and British colonialism, an emergent artistic elite fundamentally influenced how, for whom, and under what conditions contemporary art entered the public sphere. As part of this genesis, moral philosophical concepts and artists feelingsmost distinctly around compassion and inconvenienceplayed important parts in inserting imaginings of superiority and constellations of dominance into the core of European notions of art and taste. By deepening into the historical roots of contemporary art exhibitions, this reader examines the conditions under which what we now consider self-evident came into being. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Compassion and Inconvenience (Paperback)
Publisher: Mousse Publishing, Milan
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 8867496859
ISBN 13: 9788867496853
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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In the spirit of (and inspired by) 18th-century visual culture, Kirchenbauer's longform video examines the origins of artistic self-fashioning, philosophy and morality

Through a 30-minute video work, Berlin-based artist Vika Kirchenbauer (born 1983) engages with the historical context of mid-18th-century London's cultural scene, a setting inextricably entangled with early capitalism, British imperialism and an emergent artistic elite.

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