Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form
Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form was an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern curated by the Swiss curator, Harald Szeemann, in 1969. The show is considered a groundbreaking landmark for Postminimalist and Arte Povera work which, according to the New York Times, was "arguably the most famous exhibition of new art of the postwar era." The exhibition redefined the role of the curator in relation to artists – as a partnership. The exhibition included 127 works by 69 artists (three of whom were women) from Western Europe and the United States. The artists constructed their works on site within the gallery spaces of the Kunsthalle. Many of their works were process-oriented. A selection of artists from the show include Eva Hesse, Gary Kuehn, Robert Smithson, Alighiero Boetti, Joseph Beuys, Bruce Naumann, Hanne Darboven, Mario Merz, Hans Haacke among others. The exhibition enabled Szeemann to redefine his role as an independent curator working outside of the constraints of an institution. Exhibition catalog The Kunsthalle produced a catalog, When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information, with a unique die-cut alphabetically tabbed index bound with hardware-fittings for the individual artists. In Notes on the New, an essay in the exhibition catalog, Scott Burton