* REBELLION

The term ‘rebellion’, as I understand it, extends beyond the usual uprisings and oppositions, and offers instead inhabitations of knowledge production that involve unsettled, restless, and unpredictable ways of knowing. Rebellion undoes the received knowledge about much Conceptual art from the 1970s, namely its focus on object and medium, and instead provides new ways of knowing. I am particularly interested thinking rebellion through collective features of the gestural described by Agamben as “being-in-a-medium of human beings.” As gesture, rebellion disperses through encounters that are just that—in a Deleuzian sense—something in the world that “forces us to think.” Rebellion arises out of experience and through its emergence the possibilities for knowledge extend beyond a given framework, situation, or predetermined output. (Sarah Pierce, 2010)