Boothworks

Boothworks is a fictional documentary in which a voiceover describes, from an uncertain future, an international art form that is consolidated around the 2010s. This new art form, carried out by gallery owners of the time, took the gallery stand as an artistic medium and the art fair as its exhibition space. “Booth art”, as the narrator calls it, was nomadic, portable, “anti-galleria”, ephemeral, performative, site-specific, and it resisted being turned into merchandise. However, the narrator problematizes this challenging art form by questioning its relationship with capitalism, its social impact, the the change of focus from the art object to its context, the institutional and curatorial objectives that promote these practices and how the figure of the critic of art became unnecessary under these new circumstances.

The text is a collage made up entirely of edited quotes from renowned art critics, curators, art historians, artists, and other artistic agents around conceptual, site-specific, performative and ephemeral artistic practices of the 60s and 70s. like Lucy Lippard, Miwon Kwon, Germano Celant, Helen Molesworth, Seth Siegelaub or Joseph Kosuth, among others.

The visual part of the video comes from video documentation of art fairs and other artistic events found on the Internet, on platforms such as Vernissage TV.