Steve McQueen’s Giardini: A Fairy Tale

T. J. Demos is a critic and a reader in the Department of Art History, University College London, whose essays have appeared in various international publications, including Artforum, Grey Room, October, and Texte zur Kunst. Recently the director of the London-based research project “Zones of Conflict: Rethinking Contemporary Art during Global Crisis” (2008–9), he is currently a research fellow at the Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts in Brussels, where he is working on a new book on contemporary art and globalization