Where Art Belongs

Four essays by the writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus on art made from lived time. She argues the art world is still a place to try living differently.

The book moves from New York to Berlin to Los Angeles to the Pueblo Nuevo barrio of Mexicali. Its subjects include the ubiquity of video, the 1960s Amsterdam underground newspaper Suck and the New York collective Bernadette Corporation. Kraus also covers boredom, poetry, privatized prisons, community art and corporate philanthropy. Her thread is small groups reclaiming public space and time.

Kraus extends the argument of her earlier book Video Green, that the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the larger world outside it. Where Art Belongs appeared in January 2011 as number 8 in the Semiotext(e) Intervention series.