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Art in Ruins and Unknown Stranger, London 1994, an unpublished project for Frieze - Weinmayr, Eva
- Price
- $10.00
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Optica
- Format
- Artists' Books
- ISBN
- 0-9680629-in
- Size
- 20 × 20 × 0.5 cm
- Length
- 0
Formed in 1984 by Hannah Vowles and Glyn Banks, Art in Ruins was an English collaborative art practice that was active in the London and Berlin art scenes of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Together, Vowles and Banks developed an artistic practice based on communication and reflection on their role as artists within the (art)world. They were post-modern, anti-capitalist, anti-apartheid, pro-punk, pro-Marxist and held strong course to make a lasting name for themselves. After a very visible political and artistic phase of activity, Art in Ruins went quiet. When suggested that their silence could be interpreted as a strike, Vowles and Banks countered that ‘it is in no way an art strike (a concept which we consider inappropriate as it implies unionized labour and industrial production)’.
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