Burn What You Cannot Steal
Burn What You Cannot Steal Gallery Nova, Zagreb
5 December 2011 – 28 January 2012
Curator: Reuben Keehan
Artists: Brook Andrew, Alicia Frankovich, Deborah Kelly, Minouk Lim,
Daniel Malone, Hiroharu Mori
Burn what you cannot steal proposes the readymade as an unsurpassable
horizon of the art of our time, but also as a sign functioning within a
distinctly Euro-American canon, that system of legitimations under which
the supposedly global art world continues to operate. Through a range of
radical aesthetic strategies from assemblage to performance to public
intervention, it seeks to tease out the problems and possibilities of this
contradiction and other tensions embodied within it to question the
ownership of time, ideas and things, to ask how and why a given practice
enters the orbit of the global art world, and to propose the body and the city as
objects ripe for reframing, reinterpretation and reuse.
An Artspace project supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and
the Keir Foundation
