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Additional writings by Gregory Sholette can be found on his blog

Welcome to Our Bare Art World

(Older blog posts are found here)

Video presentations at Sholette YouTube Channel 

and other writings on on Academia.edu  

A short and incomplete history of “bad” curating as collective resistance (2022) [On Documenta 15, 2022]

NFT Fever (updated 2022)

Art Worker, Art Worker, What Have You Done? (2021)

Boicot, barricadas e instituciones paródicas. De la crítica institucionalizada    a las paradojas de la resistencia en un mundo del arte desnudo / Boycotts, Barricades, and Mock-Institutions: From Institutionalized Critique, to the Paradoxes of Self-Organized Resistance in a Bare Art World (2021)   

Memes Are Dominating Attention Spans…(2020)

Coming Home To Roost: How A New Wave of Institutional Critique from Deep Inside the Institution is confronting our Bare Art World (2019)

Optimism of the Will: Global Resistance to Neo-Reactionary Nationalism (FIELD JOURNAL # 12/13 2018)

Dewey, Beuys, Cage and the Vulnerable, Yet Utterly Unremarkable Heresy of Socially Engaged Art Education (2018)

Confronting Fascist Banalities…The Futurist Manifesto 110 Years (2018)

Activating the Archive From Below at a Moment of Crisis (2018)

Do We Need a Turing Test for Activist Art ? (2018)

Stefanos Tsivopoulos and the Fiscal Unconscious (2018)

Art, Debt, Oversupply – PANIC! (2017)

Art After Gentrification (2017)

Merciless Aesthetic…A Response to Boris Groys (2016)

Encountering the Counter-Institution: From the Proto-Academy to Home Workspace Beirut* (2016)

Traces in the Dark (2015)

Five Glossary Definitions from the ART & SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKING GROUP VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLITICS (2015)

Occupy Arts Administration Or How to “Shadow Curate” in Rural Scotland (2015) 

Art Out of Joint: Artists’ Activism Before and After the Cultural Turn (2015)

A User Is Haunting the Art World (2015)

On Maidan and Imaginary Archive Kyiv, Spring 2014 (2014)

50 Shades of Red: Enterprise Culture and Social Practice Art, a Love Story? (2013)

Gregory Sholette: Squatting Bruce Barber’s Sentences on Littoral Art (2013)

Gregory Sholette reads his essay: 12 Notes on Collectivism and Dark Matter, radioapartment22, Rabat (2013).  (audio)

After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social (2012)

OCCUPOLOGY, SWARMOLOGY, WHATEVEROLOGY: the city of (dis)order versus the people’s archive (2012)

Lets Do It Again Comrades, Lets Occupy The Museum (2012)

Artists, Embrace your Redundancy.” An introduction to G. Sholette’s Dark Matter thesis, Manifesta Journal #15 2012

Speaking Clown to Power: Can We Resist the Historic Compromise of Neoliberal Art? (2011)

Return of the Atomic Ghosts (2011)

Not Cool Enough To Catalog (2011)

Book Review: Pale Riders: How a Band of Radical Outsiders Briefly Stole the New York City Art World (2010)

Mockinstitutional Aesthetics: Building an Art Academy From Below? Stockyard Institute (2010)

Artists and Experimental Cinema: A Hundred Years of Infatuation and Exchange (2008)

Third Text, Volume 22 Issue 5, Special Issue ” Whither Tactical Media” edited by Greg Sholette & Gene Ray (2008)

Gifts of Resistance (2008)

State of the Union: Gregory Sholette on Artistic Labor (ART FORUM 2008)

Gregory Sholette Interviewed by the Camel group (2008)

Snip, Snip…Bang, Bang: Political Art, Reloaded (2008)

Swampwalls Dark Matter and the Lumpen Army of Art (2008)

Trickle Down Bohemia and the Anti-Capitalist Art of Ed Eisenberg (2009)

After Tilted Arc: Site Specificity in an age of Enterprise Culture (2007)

History that disturbs the present:An interview about REPOhistory with Greg Sholette (2007)

Arte y revolucion in the age of enterprise culture (2007)

Questions from an Artist Who Reads (and Thinks, Writes, and Speaks) (2007)

Taking Back the Dollar: Alternative Economies: Vera List Institute (2006)

Specters of Collectivism: A Conversation between Gregory Sholette and Elena Sorokina (2006)

The Interventionists (2005)

Disciplining the Avant-Garde: The United States versus The Critical Art Ensemble (2005)

Report from Beirut: Days Of Culture, Days Of Seige (2005)

Periodising Collectivism, with Blake Stimson (2004)

REPOhistory’s Civil Disturbances NYC: Chronology of a Public Art Project (2004)

Mysteries of the Creative Class, or, I Have Seen The Enemy and They Is Us (2004)

Welcome to the Desert of the Real Art World: Review of Chin-tao Wu’s Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s (2004)

Interventionism and the historical uncanny: or can there be a revolutionary art without the revolution? (2004)

Dark Matter, Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere (2003)

Twelve notes on collectivism and dark matter (2003)

Heart of Darkness: a Journey into the Dark Matter of the Art World (2002)

Fidelity, Betrayal, Autonomy: In and Beyond the Post Cold-War Art Museum (2002)

A COLLECTOGRAPHY OF PAD/D, A 1980S ACTIVIST ART COLLECTIVE, AND ITS LEGACY IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ACTIVIST ART AND SCHOLARSHIP. (updated 2022 for the book: The Routledge Companion to Art  and Activism in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Lesley E. Shipley and Mey-Yen Moriuchi, New York: Routledge, 2022).

How To Best Serve the New Global Contemporary Art Matrix (2000)

Some Call It Art: From Imaginary Autonomy to Autonomous Collectivity (2000)

Counting On Your Collective Silence: Notes on Activist Art as Collaborative Practice (1999)

CIRCULATION (1999)

Authenticity Squared: REPOhistory CIRCULATION: Anatomy of an Activist, Urban Art Project (1999)

News from Nowhere: Activist Art and After (1998)

Collectivism After Modernism: Art and Social Imagination after 1945, Edited by Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette (1997)

Unnatural Speculations: Nature as an icon of urban resistance on NYC’s Lower East Side 1979-1984 (1997)

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