"Based on a conference at Harvard University in 2013"--P. 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Marking, scoring, storing, and speculating (on time) / David Joselit -- Scenes of instruction / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth -- Beyond, beyond! Two years after the conference / Jutta Koether -- Modern color: a new paradigm / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- The value of liveliness: painting as an index of agency in the new economy / Isabelle Graw -- On color / Amy Sillman -- Welcome to the second day / Isabelle Graw -- Painting photography painting: timelines and medium specificities / Carol Armstrong -- Rehearsing in/with media: some remarks on the relationship between dance, film and painting / Sabeth Buchmann -- Thread, pixel, grain / Matt Saunders -- Body and soul: about the practice of painting in France (1660-1770) / René Démoris -- A nude in the neo-avant-garde Ema (Nude on a staircase), 1966 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Notes on painting / Julie Mehretu.

New from the ongoing publication series from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Pink Labor addresses the crossover of form and politics in visual representations of gender, sexuality and desire. Contradictory standpoints of queer art practices, conceptions of the body, and ideas of queer abstraction, a term coined by USC gender studies professor Judith Jack Halberstam, are of particular interest in several essays on artworks and art practices in this substantial illustrated reader. In addition to testimonials from queer performers on the topic of drag, the book includes interviews, essays, collages and personal writings. Placing contemporary art practices in historical perspective and revising the perceived divergence between artistic attitudes and formal approach, this publication offers refreshingly diverse and thought-provoking points of view. Contributors include artists, film and art historians, theorists, critics, curators, scholars, filmmakers and writers from Berlin, New York, Warsaw, Beirut, Vienna, Chicago, Los Angeles and Prague.