The first known reference to an Art Strike appears in an Alain Jouffroy essay: "What's To Be Done About Art?".
"Alytus Biennial 2011 Monstration"
"Alytus Psychic Strike 2013 Monstration"
Anti-art is a loosely used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general. Somewhat paradoxically, anti-art tends to conduct this q
Art Strike
…The notion of the Human Strike as an act of defiance was introduced by communization theorists Tiqqun, The Invisible Committee and Claire Fontaine. Anti-art Social movement…
Artist's Shit (Italian: Merda d'artista) is a 1961 artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni, which consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams (1.1 oz) of faeces. One of his friends, Enrico Baj, said that the cans were meant as "an act of defiant mockery of the art world, artists, and art criticism".
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
Illustration of Le rire (1887). First shown 1883 at an "Incohérents" exhibition by Arthur Sapeck (Eugène Bataille).