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grupa o.k. is Julian Myers and Joanna Szupinska. Initiated as a surprisingly popular Tumblr site in 2011, grupa o.k. has since produced projects or events for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland. Their practice also includes critical writing — most recently "The Prehistory of the History of Exhibitions" and an essay-length review considering the Getty Research Institutions exhibitions and books on the curator Harald Szeemann (2019). Plug In ICA, Winnipeg will publish grupa o.k.'s image history of stages, titled Stagelessness, in 2019.

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Alice Semedo

Universidade do Porto

Claire Bishop

Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Esther Solomon (Εσθήρ Σολομών)

University of Ioannina/Greece

gregory sholette

Queens College of the City University of New York

Adrián J. Sáez

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Maja Vasiljevic

University of Belgrade

Luis Ángel Sánchez Gómez

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Anthony Gardner

University of Oxford

Marvin Trachtenberg

New York University

barbara baert

KU Leuven

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Facing Poland's "New Historical Politics": A Conversation with Jarosław Suchan

by Julian Myers, Joanna Szupinska, and grupa o.k.

October, 2022

This conversation between Jarosław Suchan, director of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland, from 2006 t... more This conversation between Jarosław Suchan, director of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland, from 2006 to 2022, and grupa o.k., the collaborative endeavor of Julian Myers and Joanna Szupinska, addresses the current political crisis in Poland under the rule of the ethnocentric right-wing populist party Law and Justice and its effects on art-institutions in that country. It addresses Suchan's innovative approach to the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, which he sees as internationalist and emancipatory, and explores the circumstances of his dismissal by forces within the ultra-conservative government. It provides Suchan's parsing of disparate factions within the ruling party, his critical analysis of their aims to advance a whitewashed view of Polish history, his efforts to produce a counternarrative to this “new historical politics,” and his hopes and fears for a Polish cultural scene under right-wing populist direction.

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Goodbye, Auteur

by Julian Myers, Joanna Szupinska, and grupa o.k.

Art Journal, 2019

An essay-review of Harald Szeemann exhibitions and publications in 2018.

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The Prehistory of Exhibition History

by Julian Myers, grupa o.k., and Joanna Szupinska

Art Journal, 2017

An annotated bibliography on the history of exhibitions before 1990.

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Reproduction and Reproduction

by Joanna Szupinska, Julian Myers, and grupa o.k.

Mousse, 2015

A consideration of reproduction centered on the artist Rodney McMillian.

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Books by grupa o.k.

Bachelor Modernism: On the Société Anonyme's International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1926

by Julian Myers, Joanna Szupinska, and grupa o.k.

The Avant-Garde Museum, 2021

"Bachelor Modernism" reconstructs the 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art Arranged by the... more "Bachelor Modernism" reconstructs the 1926 International Exhibition of Modern Art Arranged by the Société Anonyme, a modernist exhibiting society led by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp. Among other things, this exhibition was the only public display of Duchamp's Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) in its original state before shattering. The essay argues that the exhibition embodied a critical tension between Dreier's milennarian vision of an internationalist and cosmic modernism, and Duchamp's premonition of a "bachelor modernism" mired in perpetual churn and failure.

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