Title: A pretentious catalog...
Product review: This is the catalog of a 1997 exhibition at LACE, prefaced by Jim Shaw and introduced by Rhonda Liebermann. Five contemporary Swedish artists (Ingrid Eriksson, Stig Sjolund, Jonas Kjellgren, Elin Wikstrom and Peter Geschwind) presented "happenings" or perhaps more accurately, "social interaction art" in LA. Unfortunately the catalog is pretentious gibberish printed in an annoying font. There is very little information on the artists (you can at most dig up 1-2 paragraphs on each of them from the introduction) and a total of 10 photographs of their work (or part of their work). Liebermann argues that in Sweden there is a culture of art "experience" which contrasts with the US emphasis on art as consumer objects("the selling of tsotchke" in her words). In my opinion, the catalog does not help anyone understand or envisage such experiences.
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