Art history often seems to be an interpretation of events that follow one another nicely and chronologically, with appropriate explanations and reasons for each step along the way. A met B. B painted C to create D. D was collected by E, who put D in touch with F, who exhibited it at the Gokumenta in Hassel in 1970-J.
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\nBy making artists verbs, nouns, or characters, this story offers another way of understanding art history. What if art history were not a series of dry facts, but instead went out last night and got terribly drunk?
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\n Art History Last Night was originally written for the exhibition Confetti at Small Projects in Tromsø, Norway in 2013, and turned into a booklet in 2018.
