Abstract
This essay critically examines the position and status of time-based art (especially video installation art) within the contemporary art world and the art market today. By focussing on case studies of recent time-based art commissions, the article explores how time-based art has been integral to the creation of a sense of 'contemporaneity' of the global art world, and yet its unique nature and practicalities of collecting has also largely excluded it from the commercial art market. Despite having long histories of creative practice, moving image-based and time-based artworks are frequently positioned and described as being 'new'. Through their complex and problematic relationship to ideas of novelty and newness, time-based artworks make important contributions to established art world structures and institutions, but they also have unique capacities to disrupt those dominant cultural systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image |
| Subtitle of host publication | Samstag/AFF and ACMI Moving Image Commissions 2009-2022 |
| Editors | Anna Zagala, Matt Millikan, Dan Rule, Justine Ellis |
| Place of Publication | Germany |
| Publisher | Perimeter Editions |
| Pages | 11-15 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781922545268 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |