Interrupture - by Bettina Funcke (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

How artists built worlds over the past 25 years as art and life in New York City rapidly transformed.

In this polyphonic history, twenty-nine artists and art-world figures trace the transition from material to immaterial culture in the first decades of the 2000s, exploring the inner and outer realities that shaped the art of the present. They speak of the euphoria of catching the last reflected light of the analog world as it yielded to a new digital reality. That turn-of-the-century high was followed by crisis and challenge as we entered an era increasingly defined by manipulation, with an art world ever more fragmented and corporate. Amid these shifts and the upheavals of recent years, artists turned to experiment and improvisation as both method and necessity. Interrupture offers a quarter-century of history through the eyes of artists in and around New York City, guided by an urgent need to map the turns that brought us here.

Authored and edited by Bettina Funcke, a New York-based writer, critic, and editor whose work engages contemporary art and its social contexts, Interrupture draws on her longstanding involvement in the city's art ecosystem to shape these conversations into a coherent, highly readable narrative while preserving the specificity of each voice.

Featuring interviews with Ei Arakawa, Fia Backström, Carol Bove, Kerstin Brätsch, Cecily Brown, Johanna Burton, Paul Chan, Dara Friedman, Andrea Geyer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Carol Greene, Tim Griffin, Wade Guyton, Mark Handforth, Achim Hochdörfer, John Kelsey, Joseph Logan, Laura Owens, Seth Price, Scott Rothkopf, Beatrix Ruf, Jay Sanders, Olivia Shao, Taryn Simon, Josh Smith, Andy Stillpass, Fabrice Stroun, Emily Sundblad, and Kelley Walker.

About the Author

Bettina Funcke is a New York-based writer, critic, and editor who has published widely on contemporary art and philosophy, with recent texts on Alice Wang, Jana Euler, and Jeannette Mundt. Her essay "Counter Cosmology or Cosmology as Counter" is forthcoming in Le Contre Ciel. She is the author of Pop or Populus: Art Between High and Low and edited Documenta 13's 100 Notes--100 Thoughts series. Her writing appears in Artforum, Bookforum, Spike, Mousse, The Brooklyn Rail, Fillip, and Texte zur Kunst, among others.