Sholette Research Citations (2018-2023)

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Journal Articles citing Sholette’s work (recent, select)

‘”In Gregory Sholette’s words, “works of socially engaged art seem to be filling an unfulfilled social need by enacting community participation and horizontal collaboration, and by seeking to create micro-collectives and intentional communities.”’ From Olivas, Adriana Miramontes. “Los neoliberarchivos de Teresa Margolles: Contemporary Art at the Mexico-US Border.” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2023) 5 (2): 57–71.

Assaf-Zakharov, Katya and Schnetgoke, Tim, “Reading the Illegible: Can Law Understand Graffiti?” (2021). Connecticut Law Review. 465. (Cited on pp. 126, 147.) https://opencommons.uconn.edu/law_review/465

Butler, Anne Marie E. ” ‘Art is Intrinsically Revolutionary:’ Post-Revolution Performance Art in Tunisia.” Liminalities 16.3 (2020): 1-20. (Cited in the Introduction, unpaginated.)

“As Gregory Sholette remarked regarding the 2004 exhibition The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, “similarity between the artists in this exhibition and the historic avantgarde is a mutual interest in temporal systems of organization and public circulation rather than the traditional practice of creating discrete, fixed art objects.”5 Likewise, the three Tunisian performances prioritize public practice over objecthood.” Book chapter in Greig e Peuter’s Organizing Dark Matter: W.A.G.E. as Alternative Worker Organization , McGill-Queen’s University Press (2020) p 3.

“This chapter surveys W.A.G.E.’s [Working Artist for the Greater Economy] strategies for organizing “dark matter,” a concept that Gregory Sholette repurposed from physics as a metaphor for the majority of artists and activities that populate the art world and uphold and subsidize its most visible and commercially successful figures.”

Doubtfire, Joseph. “Cultural Pluralism in Art Education: and Why Art Students Should Learn about the ‘Dark Matter’.” International Journal of Art & Design Education 37.4 (2018): 638-648. (Abstract).

“Drawing initially from practical experience of embedding equality and diversity in teaching and learning, this article considers the relevance of Sholette’s idea of the ‘Dark Matter’ to the notion of cultural pluralism.”

Fernández López, Olga. “Partisan Dilemmas Between Activism and Socially Engaged Art: Situations in Loisaida at the End of the Seventies.” Artl@s Bulletin 11, no. 1 (2022): Article 5, (Cited on pp. 91.) https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1287&context=artlas

Garrido Castellano, C. (2020) ‘Ryder Meets Bourriaud. Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled and the Contradictions of “Creative Capitalism”’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 61(2), (Cited on pp. 10.) doi: 10.1080/00111619.2019.1689910

Gawronski, Alexander. “Art as Critique under Neoliberalism: Negativity Undoing Economic Naturalism.” Arts. Vol. 10. No. 1. MDPI, 2021. (2 references, unpaginated).

“In terms of percentages, a diminutive number of artists globally attain the apex of the art market pyramid even if they want to; the rest remain ‘dark matter’, perpetually toiling in its shadow while constantly contributing surplus value (Sholette 2010).”

Giakoumis, Konstantinos. “Prototypes, Variations & Artistic Innovation: The Iconography of St John Vladimir on the Interplay between Frescoes, Icons, Metalwork and Copperplate Engravings.” Изкуствоведски четения 1 (2019): 277-296. (Cited on pp. 279.)

Girnus, Bridget. “The Power of Museum Contexts to Shape Change: The Relationship Between Activist Art and Museum Missions.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, March 26, 2021: 2. (Cited on pp. 13-15, 23, 43 and bibliography.)

Holm, Ditte Vilstrup, and Timon Beyes. “How art becomes organization: Reimagining aesthetics, sites and politics of entrepreneurship.” Organization Studies 43.2 (2022): 227-245. (2 references, unpaginated).

Holman, Joyce, et al. “Zurich Issue: Dark Matter, Grey Zones, Red Light, and Bling Bling.” Journal of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Issue 48, September 2020. ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts. (Cited on pp. 50 – 58.)

Kenning, Dean. “What we do and what is done to us: teaching art as culture.” Arts. Vol. 8. No. 1. Mar. 2019, p. 31 Crossref, https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8010031. (Abstract)

“Sholette sums up the issue with depressing acuity: is the real function of fine art education today to discipline ‘growing numbers [of art students] into a system that mechanically reproduces prolific failure?’”

Kibbee, B. (2022). Music as Socially Reproductive Labor: Murid Creative Practice in Dakar’s Médina. African Studies Review, 65(1), (cited in reference list.) doi:10.1017/asr.2021.98

Lorusso, S. “Gig Economy Art and Its Dark Matter,” Hyperemployment, Nero press, Rome, 2020. ( 3 reference, unpaginated)

Maryna Protas. Socio-Philosophical Critique of the Global Public Art’s Visual Order: The Context of National Self-identity. American Journal of Art and Design. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2022, (Cited on pp. 38.) doi: 10.11648/j.ajad.20220701.15 .

Petersen, Anne Ring, and Sabine Dahl Nielsen. “The reconfiguration of publics and spaces through art: strategies of agitation and amelioration.” Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 13.1 (2021): DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2021.1898766. (Abstract)

Schultz, Laura Luise, Cecilie U. Schmidt, & S. Volquartz Lebech. “Reclaim Challenge: Rethinking the Critical Impact of an Education of Performance Art in Denmark.” Nordic Theatre Studies 30.2 (2018): 40-60. (Cited on pp. 52.) https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfiles/portal/75901208/ReclaimChallenge_SchultzSchmidtLebech.pdf

Smith, K & Hannan, L 2017, ‘Return and Repetition: Methodological Enquiries in Material Culture Studies’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 48, no. 1, 2017. (Cited on pp. 46.) https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH_a_

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Books citing Sholette’s work (recent, select)

“Alternative Iran presents instances of the Iranian authorities granting permission and even funding formerly “underground” art projects, paralleling the aggressive mimicry identified by art critic Gregory Sholette in the context of Western capitalism.” interview with Pamela Karimi about her book, Alternative Iran: Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice (Stanford University Press, 2022).

Beck, John, and Ryan Bishop. Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-industrial Avant-Garde. Duke University Press Books, 2020. (Cited pp. 180, 181, 192)

Castellano, Carlos Garrido. Art Activism for an Anticolonial Future. SUNY Press, (2021). (Multiple citations.)

“Following Sholette’s provocation about “how might our narrative about social practice art collectivism be imagined differently” (2017, 230), Chapter 1 decenters and provincializes art criticism, turning past artistic experiences into a conflicting but fertile soil where alternative emancipative horizons can emerge.” (Intro).

Haiven, Max. Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies against Financialization. Pluto Press, 2018. (Cited on pp. 3, 20, 41, 75, 219).

Nelms, Taylor C., et al. A Cultural History of Money in the Modern Age. Bloomsbury Academic, UK 2019. (cited on pp. 143, 249.)

Reeves-Evison, Theo. Ethics of Contemporary Art: In the Shadow of Transgression. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020. (Cited pp 155).

“The repaired masks [that make up the installations of contemporary artist Kader Attia] and the ‘metise’ objects on display in Attia’s exhibition are examples of excluded items, comprising what Gregory Sholette calls ‘dark matter’, which he characterizes as a ‘shadow archive’ or ‘an unseen accretion of creativity’. 11

Szreder, Kuba and Poppy Bowers. The ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World. Manchester University Press, (2021). (Multiple citations).

Tickner, Lisa. London’s New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, UK, 2020. (Cited on pp. ix, 295, 408)

“Gregory Sholette calls this hinterland of ‘conspicuous yet unseen artistic activity’ that falls from view the ‘Dark Matter’ of the elite art world.”

Tormey, Jane, and Gillian Whiteley. Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer. Bloomsbury Academic, (2021). (Cited on pp. xvi, 173, 184, 189, 365…)

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Other recent citations of Sholette’s research, writing and art

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References and citations in book chapters, book reviews, online magazine articles:

“Precarity (this dark matter of which Gregory Sholette has spoken broadly) is endemic. The externalization and privatization of services is often the rule.” Manuel Borja-Villel in conversation with Dr. Benjamin Buchloh and Yve-ALain Bois, in October Magazine, MIT Press, (184) Spring, 2023. 3-26.

Altomonte, Jenna Ann. “Applied Art History: Theory and Praxis.” Socially Engaged Art History and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (2021). 93-106. (2 references, unpaginated). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43609-4_8

“Global constellations, local receptions,” Hedvig Turai, Jun, 2023