Museums that focus on the work of today's artists have the special pleasure of pursuing some of the most intriguing current ideas and points of view about contemporary life. The work of Andrea Zittel challenges even the most forward-thlnking philosophies and assumptions about the vray we live and work in today's world, It questions the relationship between our social and personal lives, our simultaneous need for security and adventure, the impact of human existence on the environment,commonly perceived differences between urban and non-urban living, and the creation and consumption of everyday products--including art itself. Related, at first glance, to Conceptualist art of the 1960s and 1970s in Europe and America, Zittel's work,which refuses to differentiate between art and life, stands alone in its conscious use of everyday strategies to advance newerideas regarding the place of art in political, social, and cultural contexts worldwide...

Lenders to the Exhibition

Foreword

 Marti Mayo and Lisa Phillips

Acknowledgments

 Paola Morsiani and Trevor Smith

Emancipated Usage:The Work of Andrea Zittel

 Paola Morsiani

New Dddes:A Frontier Practice

 Robert Cook

The Rules of Her Game:A-Z at Work and Play

 Trevor Smith

A-Z Druve-Thru Conversation

 Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley, and Andrea Zittel

Live/Work Space

 Cornelia Butler

Plates

 Annotations by Mia Lopez, Paola Morsiani, and Don Ouaintance

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Catalogue of the Exhibition

Artist's Selected Exhibition History and Bibliography

Compiled by Jennifer H. Cheng and Meg 5hiffler