Art Demonstration: Group Material and the 1980s Prints & Posters street lamps

street lamps

Stan Douglas

enlisting Jeanne Dunning

and in painting and other art works

room-sized installations

Art Demonstration: Group Material and the 1980s Prints & Posters street lampsKey predecessor of contemporary art's most radical activist gestures, the 1980s collective Group Material seized upon the temporary exhibition as a prime mode of intervention. Projects sited on walls, subways, and billboards targeted some of the most sensitive political conflicts of the era, from U. S. military interventions in Latin America to the AIDS crisis. In Art Demonstration, Claire Grace examines Group Material's New Yorkbased collaboration