World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
2021, English / German
Softcover, 224 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$38.00 - Out of stock
This September issue of Texte zur Kunst examines envy as the operating system of an art world based largely on networking, competition, and interdependencies. Envy, as understood here, develops when individuals orient and compare themselves to others. One could characterize the art world as a prototype for a competition-driven, envy-generating society; achievement in art is difficult to measure and counts less than success. Issue #123 takes a closer look at the productive as well as destructive potentials of envy in the field of art and examines the extent to which the diagnosis of envy plays into the competitive nature of work and life today. The specific social effects of contemporary forms of online communication are discussed here, as well as the political economy of envy with particular regard to art.
2021, English / German
Softcover, 286 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$38.00 - Out of stock
This June issue of Texte zur Kunst undertakes a wide-ranging inquiry into the figurative in art. The human body, and the figure more generally, is undoubtedly among the most widely depicted subjects in the history of art. Browsing the exhibition programs of museums and galleries today, one cannot fail to notice that figurative art and rhetoric are experiencing a renaissance. In cooperation with TzK’s publisher Isabelle Graw and artist Jutta Koether, the editors have conceived an issue that takes up figuration both literally – as the subject of figurative representation in painting, literature, performance, theater, and social media – and in the broader sense, as the materialization and apprehension of social phenomena. Traditional figure-ground relationships in painting are examined, as well as the mass-mediated production of the celebrity through identity politics and questions of representation in Black figuration.
Includes a conversation between editor Isabelle Graw and artist Kerry James Marshall, essays by art theoreticians Amelia Jones and Robert Slifkin, as well as writings by artists: “Figuring,” by Jutta Koether; an essay by Annette Weisser about Alina Szapocznikow; a text by Amy Sillman on Elizabeth Murray, curator Mahret Ifeoma Kupka in conversation with Bani Abidi, Silke Otto-Knapp, and Anta Helena Recke, plus reviews of Hal Foster's "Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg", "Seth Siegelaub. : Better Read Than Dead. Writings and Interviews 1964–2013", exhibitions by Amelie von Wulffen, Lorraine O'Grady, Alice Neel, Loretta Fahrenholz, Michaela Eichwald, Rindon Johnson, Julie Mehretu, "Cybernetics of the Poor", and much more.
2021, English / German
Softcover, 208 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$32.00 - Out of stock
The March issue of Texte zur Kunst, titled “Comedy,” investigates the comedic in art while also examining mass-media formats such as TV series and films. Comedy not only offers consolation and comfort by making the tragic seem comic; for the repressed, it also serves as a catalyst, addressing and thematizing repression through jokes, slapstick, or the grotesque. However, at a time when audiences increasingly demand political commitment and authenticity from art, comedic speech, which is inherently disingenuous, has fallen into disrepute: ironically distanced rhetoric is accused of turning a blind eye to social inequality. Together with Bert Rebhandl, author and co-publisher of the film magazine cargo, the editors conceptualized an issue that examines the role of the joke in art, the psychoanalytic dimension of the comedic, and the limits of satire in the age of Donald Trump.
With contributions by/features on Jennifer A. Greenhill, Kevin B. Lee, Matthias Dell, Glenn Ligon, Jan Böhmermann, Lauren Berlant, Sianne Ngai, Alenka Zupančič, Lynne Tillman, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Bert Rebhandl, Gregory Williams, Andrea Fraser, Lukas Foerster, Seinfeld, Larry David, Christiane Kues, Pujan Karambeigi, Amalia Ulman, Michaela Ott, Iris Därmann, Max Heinrich, Helvetia Leal, Sofia Bempeza, Talia Kwartler, Kai Althoff, Bernard Leach, Saim Demircan, Kim Jones, Samantha Ozer, Wu Tsang, Susanne Von Falkenhausen, Aby Warburg, Daniel Sturgis, Maxwell Alexandre, Genevieve Lipinsky De Orlov, Rosemary Mayer, Akili Tommasino, Howardena Pindell, Awol Erizku, Anna Voswinckel, Marianne Wex, Sarat Maharaj, Marion Von Osten, Françoise Vergès, Madeleine Bernstorff, Ross Bleckner, Douglas Gordon, Amy Sillman …
2020, English / German
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
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"Exactly three decades after the inaugural issue of TZK was published, we return to the question of where the hard-won and still-embattled rights of women* stand. With this issue, entitled ‘The Feminist’, we celebrate 30 years of controversial discussions about contemporary art and culture. We have invited 30 artists, critics, curators, and theorists of art and culture to talk about a cultural object that they believe is currently of particular interest from a feminist perspective. In highlighting feminist discourses that are especially relevant to the present moment, this issue should illustrate the plurality of thinkers who contribute to feminist projects today. A gesture to the unity and the alliances that critique grounded in solidarity can build!” —from the editorial by Isabelle Graw, Katharina Hausladen, and Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov.
With contributions by Isabelle Graw, Jeanetta Rich, Mirjam Thomann, Amanda Schmitt, Christian Liclair, Juliane Rebentisch, Jessica Aimufua, Katharina Hausladen, Nikita Gale, Beate Söntgen, Stacey Gillian Abe, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Taylor Le Melle, Victoria Sin, Julia Heldt, Nadja Abt, Alina Astrova, Astrid Mania, Hanna Magauer, Brigitte Weingart, Paul Niedermayer, Keren Cytter, Steven Warwick, Bini Adamczak, Raphaela Vogel, Miriam Zeh, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Violaine Huisman, Trakal …
2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$32.00 - Out of stock
"EVIL," the theme of this latest issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST is often understood as simply the opposite of “good,” and as pure immorality, evil is everywhere today, and somehow also nowhere. It is the “other” par excellence; something we ourselves never are, but by which one always measures one’s own distance. “Evil is over there, not here, not with me.” Given its ubiquity today, we offer texts that investigate what this thing we call “evil” is, as it so often functions as the polar opposite of that which people hold to be just and right. Indeed, who could argue that point, and yet. In this issue, we look specifically at evil’s manifestations in the art world, and in film, politics, and theory, always with an eye toward evil as something potentially playful and ironic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
OLIVER PRECHT
TALKING ABOUT EVIL / Reflections on Moral Judgment
SUPERNATURE / Amanda Schmitt in Conversation with Loretta Fahrenholz, Madeline Hollander, and Monica Mirabile
MAX CZOLLEK
EVIL / Some Thoughts on the Contemporaneity of a Category
REMAIN IN DARK / Interview between Colin Lang and Stephen O’Malley
A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF SOCIAL SADISM / by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Kerstin Stakemeier
NEW DEVELOPMENT
BESEELTE GABEN IM TAUSCHSYSTEM / Überlegungen zur Malerei von Jack Whitten anlässlich der Ausstellung “Jack Whitten. Jack’s Jacks“ im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
ROTATION
BEING POROUS / Alice Blackhurst on Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs
IMPURITY AND ENTANGLEMENT / Adam Butler in Conversation with Ben Lerner
REVIEWS
A CHIROGRAPHIC IMAGINARY / Colin Lang on Edmund de Waal at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
ANDERE ORTE / Elisa R. Linn über Ariane Müller bei Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
ARCHIVING INSPIRATION / Dave Beech on Albert Oehlen at the Serpentine Gallery, London
MYALGIE / Jessica Aimufua über Diamond Stingily im Kunstverein München
GO TELL IT ON THE ISLAND / Nadja Abt über die 16. Istanbul Biennale
INTIMATE INVESTIGATIONS / Jesi Khadivi on Sharon Hayes at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
ICH BIN ELEKTRISCH / Hans-Christian Dany über Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) in der Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
HUNGRY MINDS / Rachel Haidu on Leidy Churchman at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
VERFREMDEND NAH / Stephanie Holl-Trieu über „The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue“ in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
POETS AND ARTFANS / Pujan Karambeigi on Sarah Rapson at Essex Street, New York
EROSION UND WACHSTUM / Markues über „Soil Is an Inscribed Body. Über Souveränität und Agrarpoesien“ bei SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
MATERIAL FUTURES / Adrienne Ange Rooney on Lubaina Himid at the New Museum, New York
DIES IST KEIN PHALLUS / Francesca Raimondi über „Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf“
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? / Chris Reitz on Latoya Ruby Frazier at the Renaissance Society, Chicago
MAGISCHE POLITIK / Fiona Geuß über Andrea Bowers in der Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
MOTHER OF PEARL / Enzo Shalom on Nicolás Guagnini at Bortolami, New York
(BE-)ZEUG DICH! / Alida Müschen über Julia Phillips im Kunstverein Braunschweig
GHOSTS NOT WELCOME / Nina Prader on Omer Fast at the Salzburger Kunstverein
CRITICAL AFFECTIONS / Sophie Goltz über „Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s“ in der National Gallery in Singapur
ZWISCHEN ALLEN STÜHLEN / Dorothea Zwirner über Senga Nengudi im Lenbachhaus, München
NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES
SARAH SCHUMANN (1933−2019) by Vojin Saša Vukadinović
DOUGLAS CRIMP (1944–2019) by Marc Siegel
DOUGLAS CRIMP (1944-2019) by Louise Lawler
DOUGLAS CRIMP (1944-2019) by Juliane Rebentisch
EDITION
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER
RAPHAELA VOGEL
JORINDE VOIGT
2019, English / German
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$32.00 - Out of stock
In the current issue of Texts on Art, "Literature," we explore the emergence of the genre of "autofiction": a field in literature that has been taken up between the formally distinct categories of fiction and autobiography. Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk, Deborah Levy, among others, whose works are exemplary in developing the form of writing in which the fictitious ego merges with the voices of others, where these voices are potentially in the social more generally.
ISSUE NO. 115 / SEPTEMBER 2019 "LITERATUR"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
BETWEEN YOU AND ME / A Correspondence on Autofiction in Contemporary Literature between Isabelle Graw and Brigitte Weingart
WOMAN AS SUBJECT OR EXEMPLARY OF HER KIND / A Conversation between Maija Timonen and Rachel Cusk
CLAUDE HAAS
ON - THE DEMISE OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE WHIRL OF AUTOFICTION. OR: REALITY TODAY
SURRENDER AS FREEDOM / Interview with Enis Maci by Aram Lintzel
PETER REHBERG
- QUEER AUTOFICTION AS BODY PROTOCOL
DIRK VON LOWTZOW
SOME QUESTIONS FOR LEÏLA SLIMANI
LEANDER SCHOLZ - LITERATURE OF WORKING-CLASS CHILDREN
JUTTA KOETHER -
WHEN YOU PAINT APPLES, DO YOU ALSO FEEL YOUR BREASTS AND KNEES BECOMING APPLES?
NEW DEVELOPMENT
EMPIRE OF ETHER / Colin Lang on the Advent of Drone Exhibitions
ROTATION
LIFE PRESERVER / Sven Lütticken on Alice Creischer’s “In the Stomach of the Predators: Writings and Collaborations”
KLANG KÖRPER
PROTO-WHATEVER-THIS-NEXT-PHASE-IS / Annika Haas über Holly Herndon in der Volksbühne Berlin und im Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel
REVIEWS
BLUE CUBES: VOLLGELAUFENE VOLUMEN / Diedrich Diederichsen über die 58. Biennale in Venedig
THE POWER OF NO / Eva Díaz on the Whitney Biennial 2019
GLOBAL SALE / Simon Baier über El Anatsui im Haus der Kunst, München
TO GIVE AND GIVE SUN / Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu on Cecilia Vicuña at Witte de With, Rotterdam
FREE WILLY / Mikael Brkic on Jana Euler at Galerie Neu, Berlin
UNDERSTANDING THAT EVERYONE IS NOT UNDERSTANDING EVERYTHING / Gunter Reski über Heike-Karin Föll in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
CONSIDER NOT THE BIRD’S, BUT THE WORM’S VIEW / Adam Kleinman on Cian Dayrit at Nome Gallery, Berlin
KÜNSTLERIN SEIN / Georg Imdahl über Anna Oppermann in der Kunsthalle Bielefeld
SETTING THE RECORD STRAY / Ana Teixeira Pinto on “Straying from the Line” at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
CHICAGO, NOW! / Hans-Jürgen Hafner über Gustave Caillebotte in der Alten Nationalgalerie, Berlin
HIDE AND SEEK / Magnus Schaefer on Lydia Ourahmane at Bodega, New York
WE NEVER KNOW HOW HIGH WE ARE / Thomas Groetz über Mayo Thompson in der Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
INVOLUNTARY TRACES / Daniel Ricardo Quiles on Jonathas de Andrade at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
POETISCHE SEZIERUNGEN / Isabel Mehl über Cana Bilir-Meier im Hamburger Kunstverein
CAVEMAN BLUES / Saim Demircan on Edith Karlson and Dan Mitchell at Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn
DIE MEISTERIN / Stefan Neuner über Lotte Laserstein in der Berlinischen Galerie
STAGING FEMINISM / Luisa Lorenza Corna on “The Unexpected Subject: 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy” at FM Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, and “Doing Deculturalization” at Museion, Bolzano
WAHRNEHMUNG IST VERSCHIEBBAR / Christina Irrgang über Bea Schlingelhoff in der Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
GRIT AND VITALITY / Daniel Sturgis on Joan Snyder at Blain Southern, London
NACHRUFE
LINDA BILDA (1963−2019)
by Silvia Eiblmayr
AGNÈS VARDA (1928–2019)
by Jennifer Stob
MICHEL SERRES (1930−2019)
by Lorenz Engell
KLAUS BUSSMANN (1941–2019
by Ulrike Groos and Hans Haacke
EDITION
BIRGIT MEGERLE
STERLING RUBY
2019, English / German
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The sea has inspired artists, writers, and thinkers for centuries; but what has changed in our view of the sea since the canonical seafaring novels and paintings of the 19th century? In the June issue of Texte zur Kunst, dedicated to the mysteries and violence of the deep, we examine the sea from a media-theoretical perspective as well as from the perspective of current political and ecological catastrophes. For this issue, the theoretical texts are punctuated by photo essays by four artists who have dealt with the sea as a biosphere as well as a transit system for container vessels. In short, we realize just how important it is to look at the sea again, and again.
ISSUE NO. 114 / JUNE 2019 "THE SEA"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
BERNHARD SIEGERT
THE SINKING OF A STEAMBOAT / Robert Carrick’s, William Suhr’s, David Bull’s, and J. M. W. Turner’s “Rockets and Blue Lights” (1840–2003)
NADJA ABT -
SEAWOMEN
ASHNA ALI
- MEDITERRANEAN BORDERLAND
SUSANNE M. WINTERLING -
CODE AND POETRY OF THE SEA
IN THE THICKNESS OF THE CROSSING / Challenging the Liquid Violence of Borders in the Mediterranean – An interview with Charles Heller
MANDLA REUTER
- MOUNTAIN WATER
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
JETSAM
HIRA NABI
- HOW TO DISMANTLE A SHIP IN NINE STEPS
FRANZISKA BRONS
- THE SEA: MEDIUM AND MILIEU
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
FOR A PANAFRICAN PAST AND FUTURE! / Michaela Ott über das Jubiläum des subsaharischen Filmfestivals FESPACO in Ouagadougou
ROTATION
DIE UNANGENEHME VERWANDTE / Vojin Saša Vukadinović über „Last Days at Hot Slit. The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin“ von Johanna Fateman und Amy Scholder (Hg.)
REVIEWS
A LEGIBLE FUTURE / Jeffrey West Kirkwood on “The New Alphabet” at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
LEERSTELLEN IN DER VERGANGENHEIT, RISSE IN DER GEGENWART / Sven Beckstette über Dierk Schmidt im Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
SUBJECTS OF MADNESS: NANOTYRANNUS, RAW CHAMPAGNE, AND BREASTS LIKE CAMELLIAS / Nina Prader on “Flying High: Women Artists of Art Brut” at the Kunstforum Vienna
AFROATLANTISCHE GESCHICHTEN / Frauke Zabel über Rubem Valentim im Museu de Arte de São Paulo
SYSTEMIC AESTHETICIZATION / Sven Lütticken on Pierre Huyghe at the Serpentine Gallery, London
CIVILIZATIONAL ENTANGLEMENTS / Rike Frank on Rossella Biscotti at the daadgalerie, Berlin
PIPELINE DREAMS / Benjamin Thorel on Lucie Stahl at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris
REALITÄTSEFFEKTE / Hannes Loichinger über Jay Chung und Q Takeki Maeda im Kölnischen Kunstverein
FAIL BETTER / Colin Lang on Stefanie Heinze at Capitain Petzel, Berlin
ALLE KÜNSTLER*INNEN LÜGEN / Michael Franz über KP Brehmer im Neuen Museum in Nürnberg
THE DISCREET CHARM OF VANISHING / Estelle Nabeyrat on Lourdes Castro at Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan
BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE / David Bussel on Ghislaine Leung at Chisenhale Gallery, London
STABILE UNGLEICHGEWICHTE / Gürsoy Doğtaş über Nil Yalter im Museum Ludwig, Köln
BEST SINGER-SONGPAINTING / Gunter Reski über Norbert Schwontkowski bei Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
HERE’S AL / Eli Diner on Allen Ruppersberg at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
BATHETIC FALLACY / Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe on “A Fatal Attraction” at Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
OBITUARIES
OKWUI ENWEZOR (1963–2019) / by Ulrich Wilmes, Ute Meta Bauer and Markus Müller, with an introduction by Isabelle Graw
CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN (1939–2019) / by Pamela M. Lee
KARL LAGERFELD (1933−2019) / von Barbara Vinken
EDITION
JANA EULER
HELEN MARTEN
2019, English / German
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For the latest issue no. 113, TEXTE ZUR KUNST investigates the structures within the arts and cultural spheres where racism and discrimination are practiced, performed, and reproduced. This special issue concentrates specifically on the context of Germany, and includes discussions and texts from artists and theorists throughout the country who have dedicated special attention to current and ongoing political and social crises; specifically the challenges these crises pose for the language and terms of art criticism. How can criticism mount an appropriate response to the discrimination and injustices that pervade all levels of society?
ISSUE NO. 113 / MARCH 2019 "DISKRIMINIERUNG/DISCRIMINATION"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
SABETH BUCHMANN AND ISABELLE GRAW - THE CRITIQUE OF ART CRITICISM
COMMON GROUND / Colin Lang in Conversation with Julia Grosse, Suza Husse, and Max Czollek
ÇIĞDEM INAN
NON-RECOGNITION / The Other Side of the Critique of Racism
VIOLENT MEDIATIONS / Jenny Nachtigall in Conversation with Hannah Black
NAMING RACISM / Sven Beckstette in Conversation with Veronika Fuechtner and Oliver Hardt
HELMUT DRAXLER - THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION
ROTATION
INTENTIONALE BEGEGNUNGEN / Hanna Magauer über Christian Kravagnas „Transmoderne. Eine Kunstgeschichte des Kontakts“
SITUIERTE SENSIBILITÄT! / Michaela Ott über „Sensibilität der Gegenwart“ von Burkhard Liebsch (Hg.)
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
PARTICLE ACCELERATOR / Daniel Horn on the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva
REVIEWS
COURS, CAMARADE / Tom McDonough on “The Most Dangerous Game” at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
BAUHAUS IM GLOBALEN SÜDEN / Tobi Maier über „bauhaus imaginista: Learning From“ im SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
FULLY IMMERSED / Megan R. Luke on Heidi Bucher at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London
DOPPELBELASTUNG / Sophie Goltz über „Medea muckt auf. Radikale Künstlerinnen hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang“ in der Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
AUDIENZ BEIM MALERFÜRSTEN / Ulrich Pfisterer über Jörg Immendorff im Haus der Kunst, München
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS / SOFTCORE INSURRECTION / Kari Rittenbach on Tobias Kaspar at the Kunsthalle Bern
THROWAWAY INVENTIVENESS / Mirjam Thomann über Cady Noland im Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
REBEL REBEL / Saim Demircan on Sarah Lucas at the New Museum, New York
AUFGELADENE FRACHT / Nadja Abt über Ulrike Müller im Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING BECOMES LIQUID / Luisa Lorenza Corna on Metahaven at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
EVENING JOE / Robert Müller über Ed Ruscha in der Secession, Wien
CIRCUMSTANCES OF SOCIAL WORK / Eric Golo Stone on Laurie Parsons at the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
AT LAST, WARHOL COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET / Jonathan D. Katz on Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum of American Art
OBITUARY
ROBERT MORRIS (1931−2018)
FERDINAND KRIWET (1942–2018)
LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN (1944–2018)
EDITION
ARTURO HERRERA
ALICJA KWADE
2018, English / German
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Issue # 112 of Texte zur Kunst, “Noise/Silence,” focuses on these two sonic extremes that define the boundaries of the audible, framing all possible sonic expressions therein. Given the emergence of sound as its own field of inquiry within the arts, and the development of newer media forms for sound production, can we still reliably argue that noise and silence are open to artists and musicians today in the ways that they were for Luigi Russolo in his 1913 manifesto, “The Art of Noises;” or, in John Cage’s writings on silence? In our analysis and judgment on the contemporary significance of noise and silence within sound and music, we are also questioning the potential for radical gestures with sound tout court—the all or nothing. What is left for music and sonic interventions today? What kinds of subversive noises can be marshaled against the deafening silence? And where, if anywhere, can silence provide a shelter from the relentless noise from the outside? We assembled a group of media historians and philosophers to give us a theoretical orientation in this shifting sonic landscape, and also asked four artists/musicians to weigh in on the possibility for radical gestures in their own practice. The results offer a much-needed revision of the terms for sound in the arts today.
Issue No. 112 / December 2018 "Noise/Silence"
Table Of Contents
Forward
Preface
Rolf Grossmann - Silence, Sound, Noise / Aesthetic And Media-Technological Observations
Ute Holl - Excavating Silence
Fiona Mcgovern - Curating Sound
Sound Rules / Colin Lang And Cevdet Erek In Conversation
Michaela Melián - Electric Ladyland
Andrea Neumann - Production By Subtraction
Arto Lindsay
Puce Moment
New Development
Political Myth – Prefiguration – Brexit / Angus Nicholls On The Mythic Structures Behind Brexit
Rotation
Metabolismen Der Moderne / André Rottmann Über „Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren Einer Antimodernen Ästhetik“ Von Kerstin Stakemeier
Migration Und Film Denken / Nanna Heidenreich Über Brigitta Kusters „Grenze Filmen“
The Third Persona / Amanda Schmitt On Ben Lerner And Anna Ostoya’s “The Polish Rider”
Klang Körper
Figuring Space / Steven Warwick On Catherine Christer Hennix
Reviews
This Is The Rented Moment / Nicolás Guagnini On Jack Smith At Artists Space, New York
Konzeptueller Fehlschlag / Fabio Cypriano Über Die 33. Biennale In São Paulo
Enjoy Your Sinthome / Sven Lütticken On Dora García At The Reina Sofía, Madrid
Artists Must Begin Helping Themselves / Pedro De Llano On Stephan Dillemuth At A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto
Der Traumzauberbaum / Inka Meißner Über Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Im Kunstverein Freiburg
Burnt By The Sun / Colin Lang On Katarina Sieverding At Manifesta 12, Palermo
Star Alliance / Alida Müschen Über Ei Arakawa Im Kunstverein Für Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Canon Fodder / Julia Pelta Feldman On Charline Von Heyl At Petzel Gallery, New York
Manspainting / Georg Imdahl Über Balthus In Der Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Case Of Urgency / Christina Catherine Martinez On Gerry Bibby At O-Town House, Los Angeles
Meshes Of The Platform Age / Jakob Schillinger On Loretta Fahrenholz At Mumok, Vienna
Re-Call, Re-Take, Represent / Rattanamol Singh Johal On Vivan Sundaram At The Kiran Nadar Museum Of Art, New Delhi And Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Grasping History / Frauke Zabel Über Karin Schneider Im Kunstverein Nürnberg
Stacked Cards / Ana Vogelfang On Pablo Accinelli At Malba, Buenos Aires
Computerkunst Jenseits Des Computers / Karel Císař Über „1968:Computer.Art“ In Brno
Abstraction Of The Body / Melissa Gordon On Amy Sillman At Camden Arts Centre, London
Feministischer Dekolonialismus Avant La Lettre / Michaela Wünsch Über Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Im Kulturzentrum Der Koreanischen Botschaft, Berlin
Where The Bodies Are Buried / Ana Teixeira Pinto On Roee Rosen At The Centre Pompidou, Paris
Chez Michel / Anke Dyes Über Henrik Olesen Im Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Obituary
Helena Almeida (1934–2018) / João Ribas
Klaus Herding (1939−2018) / Tom Holert
Edition
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Jeanette Mundt
Wolfgang Tillmans
2018, English / German
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The September issue of Texte zur Kunst focuses on Amerika (U.S. America principally): the land, the idea, and all that seems to come with it. What is Amerika today other than a contradiction between brute political reality and a largely fictional self-image, where fiction says as much about fact as “alternative facts” say about the truth? Within this contradiction, this issue tries to imagine modes of engaging with the current political machinery without opting for the one-dimensional dive into micropolitics that has plagued much recent activist discourse. The Trump regime has introduced a new form of politics whose tactics are closer to artistic practice—inventing parallel truths and questioning facts—than anything like traditional governance. As such, those familiar with art are in a unique position to offer an analysis of the specific forms that define contemporary politics in Amerika. We have thus commissioned artists and critics to come up with new strategies for analyzing the rampant barbarism, resisting the urge to sink into paralysis and defeat in the face of the endless onslaught.
Issue No. 111 / September 2018 "America"
Table Of Contents :
Foreword
Prefaces
Colin Lang
- The Horror, Vacui
Ken Okiishi -
Liberty and Justice For All, Not Us
Aria Dean -
Trauma And Virtuality
Letter To A Friend In New York / By Isabelle Graw
The Golden Hoard / Conversation With Andrea Fraser
Sina Najaf - i
The American Dream State
Robert F. Reid-Pharr -
What We Dare Not Remember
New Development
Is Space The Place? / Eva Díaz On Feminist Futures In The Anthropocene
Love Work Cinema
Between Bildersturm And Artistic Research / Rainer Bellenbaum About Films From The Years Around 1968 In The Historical Program Of The Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Reviews
Decolonialized Narrative In The National Art Temple / Susanne Von Falkenhausen On "Hello World" At Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
That Fluctuating Moment / Jesi Khadivi At The 10Th Berlin Biennale
The Silent Ship / Övül Ö. Durmusoglu On Manifesta 12 In Palermo
Love And Salt / Adrienne Rooney On Adrian Piper At The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
Tracks Of Disappearance / Tobi Maier About Bruce Nauman In The Schaulager, Basel
Man In The Mirror / Dan Kidner On "Picasso 1932 - Love, Fame, Tragedy" At Tate Modern, London
In The Bure Of The Circle / Marietta Kesting About Raster-Noton In The Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
Looking But Not Seeing? / Darla Migan On Faith Ring Gold At Weiss Berlin
Mad / Ame / Jenny Nachtigall About Jutta Koether At The Museum Brandhorst, Munich
If You Are Once Big / Nadja Abt About Philip Wiegard At Between Bridges, Berlin
Marked By Trade / Sven Lütticken On "Trade Markings" At The Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Amazone Retired / Tina Schulz On Astrid Klein In The Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg
Born To Die / Colin Lang On Jeanette Mundt At Société, Berlin
Limitations Of Utopia / Christina Irrgang On Cyril Lachauer In The Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Hereditary Peers / Saim Demircan On Luke Willis Thompson At Kunsthalle Basel
Zoology Of The Falls / Niklas Lichti On Peter Wächtler With Lars Friedrich, Berlin
Below The Surf / Steven Warwick On Georgie Nettell At The Kunstbunker Forum For Contemporary Art, Nuremberg
The Hour Of The Historics / Ariane Müller About Valie Export At The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Foreign Powers / Johanna Burton On Zoe Leonard At The Whitney Museum Of American Art
Committee Criteria / Kerstin Stakemeier On Henrike Naumann At The Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Related Practices / Sandra Neugärtner On Anni Albers In The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Term (s) Of Endearment / Kathi Hofer On "Milieu" At After The Butcher, Berlin
Obituary
Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018)
Edition
Cecily Brown
Mark Leckey
2018, English / German
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In the 18 years since Texte zur Kunst first turned its attention to the field of performance, a lot has happened, to say the least. Today, performance refers to almost any act, willing or forced, and is used by the institutions the world over whose aim is often to solicit performative acts from consumers, whether they are an audience at an art event or a user of social media. With performance today comes the inevitable system of evaluation—likes, ratings, grades, followers, etc.—a fact that has made separating performance as an art, and its popularity, from the overpowering influence of the culture of evaluation. For this issue of Texte zur Kunst, "Performance Evaluation," we investigate the overlapping definitions of performance, following their ubiquity and uses in particular, in order to evaluate what performance means today, and what we mean when we call something a "performance."
Issue No. 110 / June 2018 "Performance Evaluation"
Table Of Contents
Vorwort
Preface
Sabeth Buchmann
Feed Back: Performance In The Evaluation Society
Steffen Mau And Uwe Vormbusch
Likes And Performance / A Conversation Between Uwe Vormbusch And Steffen Mau On The Quantification Of The Social
Alexandra Pirici
Performance As Conjuring / Artist Statement
Stefan Hölscher
(Re-)Evaluating Performance Since 1990
Evelyn Annuss
On The Future Of The Volksbühne –
Failure Is An Option
Andreas Gelhard
Notes On The Competence Society
Working With Performance / A Conversation About Collaboration, Collectivity, And The Value Of Performance
New Development :
Amanda Schmitt
Miranda Warning
Rotation :
Nach Dem Metabolischen Bruch / Martin Müller Über „Molekulares Rot. Theorie Für Das Anthropozän“ Von Mckenzie Wark
Klang Körper
Äpfel Und Birnen / Wolfgang Seidel Über „Underground Und Improvisation. Alternative Musik Und Kunst Nach 1968“ In Der Akademie Der Künste, Berlin
Stunt / Anke Dyes Über Georgia Sagri Im Portikus Frankfurt/M.
Brighten The Corners / Colin Lang On “Res·O·Nant” At The Jewish Museum Berlin
Anke Dyes, Luisa Kleemann Und Tina Schulz
Über Das Gallery Weekend In Berlin
Reviews :
Endstation Selbstbezug / Hans-Christian Dany Über „Harald Szeemann: Museum Of Obsessions“ Und „Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us“ Im Getty Center Und Ica In Los Angeles
Forward In This Generation / Eva Díaz On The New Museum Triennial
Archivarisch Verdichtet / Agnieszka Roguski Über „Left Performance Histories“
In Der Neuen Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Broken Lineage / Gregory H. Williams On “Inventur: Art In Germany, 1943–55” At The Harvard Art Museums
Geld Ist Sein Pinsel / Verena Dengler Über Damien Hirst Bei Gagosian, Beverly Hills
Antipathy & Ecstasy / Kari Rittenbach On Ilya Lipkin At Svetlana, New York
Museum In Progress / Barbara Hess Über „Von Da An. Räume, Werke, Vergegenwärtigungen Des Antimuseums 1967–1978“ Im Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Composition As Explanation / Annie Godfrey Larmon On Cally Spooner At The Centre D’art Contemporain Genève
Ikonisches Nachleben / Johannes Bennke Über James Benning Bei Neugerriem-Schneider, Berlin
Game Of Thrones / Chris Reitz On Geta Bratescu At Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Park, Blicke / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer Über Maya Schweizer Im Kunstverein Leipzig
Humanity’s Last Hopf / Mikael Brkic On Judith Hopf At Kunst-Werke Berlin
Memes, Schönheit Und Verfremdung / Jessica Aimufua Über Arthur Jafa In Der Julia Stoschek
Collection Berlin
Unendliche Arbeit / Hans-Jürgen Hafner Über Catherine Christer Hennix
Im Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Relentless Applause / Carmen Gray On Katrina Daschner At The Neue Galerie Graz
Karikaturen Ohne Pointe / Michael Franz Und Franziska Ipfelkofer Über Matthias Noggler Bei Emanuel Layr, Wien
Administrativer Papierkram / Fiona Geuß Über „Paperwork“ In Der Sammlung Haubrok, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin
Nachrufe :
Linda Nochlin (1931–2017)
Kynaston Mcshine (1935–2018)
Peter Gorsen (1933–2017)
Edition :
Tauba Auerbach
Eliza Douglas
Hans Haacke
2018, English / German
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The March issue of Texte zur Kunst considers art’s relation to rules — or rather, the exceptions to them that art and its agents seem to claim. How can we speak of rules in the context of art, where transgressions are lauded even while traditional hierarchies (class, gender, race, sexuality) continue to assert their influence? And would we demand anything less of art than the promise of disobedience, rule breaking both in terms of formal restrictions and normative regulations? Therefore, in this issue we ask: by what rules does the art world play, and how are transgressions made visible/invisible therein?
ISSUE NO. 109 / MARCH 2018 "ART WITHOUT RULES?“
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2017, English / German
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In art historical and art critical texts, the concept of “idiom” – an expression or mode of speaking that cannot be translated – is frequently used, even if it is rarely spoken of as such. TZK issue 108 explores how the idea of “idiom” might allow us to coherently engage with art's disparate materialist and iconographic connections at a time when the vitality of historical Western-centric cannons are fading (see: Documenta 14) and the traditional relations within and among artistic systems are ever less self-evident. The "Idiom" issue of TZK asks: What languages does art speak?
ISSUE NO. 108 / DECEMBER 2017 "IDIOM - LANGUAGES OF ART“
Table Of Contents
Preface
Susanne Leeb - Idioms: The Minor "A"s Of Art
Artist's Choice
Mirjam Thomann - Chapter 3: Women And Space
Anja Kirschner - In A Manner Of Speaking
Michael Dean
Linda Stupart - Didacticore: An Artist's Statement
Bouchra Khalili - Mother Tongue
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Hear, Hear
Giovanna Zapperi - Body Of Evidence, Gestures Of Dysfunction / Technology As Practice In The Work Of Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Yvonne Volkart - From Trash To Waste / On Art's Media Geology
Monica Juneja - To Enter The Image / The Performative Self As Idiom*
Dieter Lesage - Research And Form / On "Artistic Research" And Its Aesthetic
Sven Lütticken - Modernist Memories / On The Conteporaneity of Günther Frg
Bildstrecke
Philipp Gufler
Maybe Devotion Is The Only Thing I Can Offer You
New Development
Once More With Feeling / Philipp Wüschner Über Das Symposium „Image Testimonies – Witnessing In Times Of Social Media“
Cloudism / Library Stack On Blockchain Archives And Library Futures
Liebe Arbeit Kino
Lauf, Genosse! / Madeleine Bernstorff Über „Cours, Cours, Camarade, Le Vieux Monde Est Derrière Toi. Das Kino Von Med Hondo“ Im Kino Arsenal, Berlin
Glück Auf! / Esther Buss Über Ben Russells „Good Luck“, 70. Locarno Festival
Reviews
Handlungsräume / Sophie Goltz Über „Radical Women“ Im Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Downward Spiral / Steven Warwick On “Trigger: Gender As A Tool And A Weapon” At The New Museum, New York
„Überlast“ Und Emanzipation – „Ich Weiss Nicht, Ob Mein Stand Es Erlaubt.“ / Isabel Mehl Über „Klassensprachen“ Im District Berlin
Katie Serva On “The Overworked Body: An Anthology Of 2000s Dress” At Ludlow 38 And Mathew Gallery, New York
Beiläufig Grundsätzlich / Bert Rebhandl Über Harun Farocki Im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein
Rien Ne Va Plus / Nuit Banai On Ericka Beckman At Secession, Vienna
Familienausstellung / Inka Meißner Über Verena Dengler In Der Kunsthalle Bern
Do You Like To Read? / Christian Berger Über „Hanne Darboven. Korrespondenzen“ Im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin
After Hours / Andrew Durbin On Thomas Eggerer At Petzel Gallery, New York
Remembering The Future / Bennett Simpson On William Leavitt At Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
Garten, Werkstatt, Oper – Alexander Kluge In Ausstellungen / Rainer Bellenbaum Über Alexander Kluge In Der Fondazione Prada, Venedig, Und Im Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart
Getting Real / Helena Vilalta On Lee Lozano At Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Queere Subjektivität Und (Anti-)Koloniale Begehren / Jenny Nachtigall Über „Odarodle – Sittengeschichte Eines Naturmysteriums, 1535–2017“ Im Schwulen Museum, Berlin
Herrschaftszeichen Noch Mal! / Clemens Krümmel Über Michael Dreyer Im Badischen Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Nachruf
Karl Otto Götz (1914–2017)
Edition
Candida Höfer
Ed Ruscha
2017, English / German
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"Identity politics" has always been beleaguered territory. Yet recently the debate around “identity" has intensified and (with Trump) even developed new fronts. This issue examines the present state of identity politics in the West, finding the commodification of identity in mass culture (as in the art market) to be a leading influence. We also recognize a divide between, on the one hand, non-dominant communities cohering around identity so as to become visible together; and on the other hand, individuals aiming to stand out as special or "unique" by dint of membership in various non-dominant groups. Such ambiguity, in the face of current leadership (see issue cover) lends only all the more urgency, we feel, for a serious engagement with “identity” vis-a-vis “politics” now.
ISSUE NO. 107 / SEPTEMBER 2017 "IDENTITY POLITICS NOW"
Table Of Contents
Preface
True And False Victims / Sarah Schulman In Conversation With Caroline Busta and Anke Dyes (Texte Zur Kunst)
People Politics
Gabi Ngcobo & Yvette Mutumba, Klaus Biesenbach, Egija Inzule On "People Politics"
Monique Roelofs / Identity And Its Public Platforms: A String Of Promises Entwined With Threats
Andreas Reckwitz / Performative Authenticity: The Subject In The Late Modern Society Of Singularities
What Would Winning Look Like? / Bini Adamczak In Conversation With Anke Dyes (Texte Zur Kunst)
Coco Fusco / Decades Of Identity Politics
Bildstrecke
Sandra Mujinga
Rotation
Das Falsche Buch Zur Richtigen Zeit / Floris Biskamp Über „Beißreflexe“ Von Patsy L’amour Lalove
Apocalypse, A Lover’s Discourse / Jeff Nagy On “Life” By Hannah Black and Juliana Huxtable
Das Unbewusste Ist Strukturiert Wie Eine Ware / Helmut Draxler Und Kerstin Stakemeier Über „The Capitalist Unconscious“ Von Samo Tomšic
Zwischen Warten Und Wandern / Christiane Voss Über „Siegfried Kracauer. Eine Biografie“ Von Jörg Später
Liebe Arbeit Kino
Ghost In Chanel / Tobias Madison On Olivier Assayas’s Film “Personal Shopper”
Lippenbekenntnisse / Fiona Mcgovern Über Kerstin Honeit Im Videoraum Der Berlinischen Galerie
Grand Tour
Documenta 14 - Skulptur Projekte Münster - 57Th Biennale Di Venezia
Aus Fehlern Lernen / Sabeth Buchmann Und Ilse Lafer Über Die Documenta 14 In Athen
Incorrect History / Tom Mcdonough On Naeem Mohaiemen’s “Two Meetings And A Funeral” At Documenta 14, Kassel
Public Sculpture Pokéstop / Amy Lien And Enzo Camacho On Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Aufhören, Wenn’s Am Schönsten Ist / Eva Ehninger Über Die Skulptur Projekte Münster
The Stuck Hourglass / Venus Lau On The 57Th Venice Biennale
Crowd Kontrolle / Judith Rodenbeck On Anne Imhof’s “Faust” For The German Pavilion, 57Th Venice Biennale
Reviews
Negative Chic / Ken Okiishi On Rei Kawakubo/Comme Des Garçons At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York
Zünftig In Die Zukunft / Beate Söntgen Über „Otto Freundlich: Kosmischer Kommunismus“ Im Museum Ludwig, Köln
The Man In The Mirror / Sarah Morris On Merlin Carpenter At Galerie Neu, Berlin
Verdeckte Arbeit / Gertrud Koch Über Sarah Morris Bei Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Marilyn And The Museum With Walls / Kevin Lotery On Rachel Harrison At Greene Naftali, New York
Unterwerfung Durch Architektur / Anna Voswinkel Über Peggy Buth Im Museum Folkwang Essen
Democracy Of Sound / Zoë Alexandra Harris On “Free Music Production/Fmp: The Living Music” At Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Tausend Snapchat-Rimbauds / Hans-Christian Dany Über Seth Price Im Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Trocadero Drift / John Kelsey on Michel Houellebecq At Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Resident Aliens / Ella Plevin On Monira Al Qadiri At Gasworks, London
Blickwechsel-Begehren / Ines Kleesattel Über Birgit Megerle Im Kunsthaus Glarus
Containers Of The Virtual / Lars Bang Larsen On Hans-Christian Lotz At Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
Geschwätzige Zeiten / Tobias Teutenberg Über „After The Fact. Propaganda Im 21. Jahrhundert“ In Der Städtischen Galerie Im Lenbachhausund Kunstbau München
The Interdependence Of Feelings And Debates / Yuki Higashino On Martin Beck At Mumok, Vienna
Nachruf
Werner Hamacher (1948–2017)
Edition
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Juergen Teller
2017, English / German
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The theme of this issue - The New New Left - is not entirely “new new,” as indeed it relates to the old anti-capitalist Left in its insistence on a theoretical analysis of capitalism and the price paid by many in such a system. But as the discourses and strategies long associated with the Left (workerism, identity politics, or the mode of the avant-gardist troll) have been adopted by anti-progressive outlets, it has become increasingly complex to locate a Left stance from which to effectively speak and act. This issue explores the affective mechanisms and media strategies – from the rise of viral content (memes) to the harvesting and right-wing politicization of emotions – that are producing our post-millennial, post-financial crisis, post-Brexit/Trump present.
Issue No. 106 / June 2017 "The New New Left“
Table Of Contents
Preface
Cultural Resources / Sabine Hark And Sighard Neckel In Conversation On Feelings Of Resentment And Revenge
Verena Dengler
Fake Left, Punch Right
Jaleh Mansoor
Unveiling And/Or Re-Masking / Notes On The Political Dialectics Of The Opacity Of The Sign
Seth Price
Wrong Seeing, Odd Thinking, Strange Action
Matt Goerzen
Notes Toward The Memes Of Production
Diedrich Diederichsen
The Tough Stuff / “Populism," "Political Correctness," And The Like
Simon Denny
Face The Market On Your Own
Klaus Walter
Liberté, Egalité, Beyoncé?
Dan Bodan
Europe, 2016-17 / Selected Status Updates Of Recent Months
Bildstrecke
Kayode Ojo
Become What You Fear
New Development
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Artwashing / Nrx And The Alt-Right
Rotation
Obsessive, Compulsive, Disorder / Johanna Burton On Douglas Crimp’s “Before Pictures”
Probing Attitudes / Philipp Ekardt On “Putting Rehearsals To The Test” (Buchmann, Lafer, Ruhm, Eds.)
In Experimenten Seine Vernunft Aufs Spiel Setzen / Stefan Römer Über Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, „Der Kupferstecher Und Der Philosoph. Albert Flocon Trifft Gaston Bachelard“
Reviews
Nachrichten Aus Der Ideologischen Antike / Georg Imdahl Über Wade Guyton Im Museum Brandhorst
Schwere Verspannungen Lösen / Eva Scharrer Über Nairy Baghramian Im S.M.A.K. In Gent
Deviant Art / Dena Yago On Danny Mcdonald At House Of Gaga, Los Angeles
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is / Tina Schulz Über Nora Schultz Bei Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Reverse Cubism Als Betrachtungsirrtum / Gunter Reski Über Pieter Schoolwerth Bei Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Mad World / Steven Warwick On Liz Craft & Pentti Monkkonen At Liszt, Berlin
Public Viewing / Moritz Scheper Über Sadie Benning In Der Kunsthalle Basel
Eye In The Sky / Ilya Lipkin On Ned Vena At Societé, Berlin
Kritische Stoffe, Shoppinglust Und Andere Ambivalenzen / Ines Kleesattel Über Ines Doujak (Und John Barker) Im Württembergischen Kunstverein
In Einem Anderem Land / Christian Kravagna Über „The Color Line“ Im Musée Du Quai Branly, Paris
Mehr Epistemischer Ungehorsam! / Susanne Witzgall Über „Postwar: Kunst Zwischen Pazifik Und Atlantik 1945–1965“ Im Haus Der Kunst, München
With Or Without / Christian Philipp Müller On Yuji Agematsu At Miguel Abreu Gallery, Nyc
Kommunikation Ist Kein Objekt / Fiona Geuß Über Ian Wilson In Den Kw Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin
Nachruf
Gustav Metzger (1926–2017): Ein Nachruf Von Sabine Breitwieser
Edition
Anne Imhof
Sean Landers
2017, English / German
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ISSUE NO. 105 / MARCH 2017 “THEY ARE US / WIR SIND IHR”
With Issue #105, TZK considers the nationalist, conservative, and racist ideologies that have recently become more visible across Europe and the US, giving particular focus to questions of border politics and migration -- of humans, of data, of patrimony, of signs. Advised by Helmut Draxler, Isabelle Graw, and Susanne Leeb, this issue was conceived prior to the US presidential election as a cooler reflection on present political debates. And yet having been produced amid the chaos of the Trump administration's first weeks, it also necessarily stands as a reflection of political-aesthetic thinking during markedly volatile times: Wir sind Ihr? They are us? We are them?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
FORWARD
PREFACE
ROUNDTABLE
BUT WHO IS “THEY”? / Roundtable discussion with Manuela Bojadžijev, Nikita Dhawan, and Christoph Menke, moderated by Helmut Draxler on Refugee and Migrant Flows as a Challenge for Political Thought
OVERCOMING MUTE RELATIONS, OR, THINKING WITH YOUR FEET / Angela Melitopoulos in conversation with Susanne Leeb
Daniel Keller
NEW DEVELOPMENT
HALFTIME VIBES / John Kelsey on Meditations in an Emergency
WEDER WOHNUNG NOCH WÄHRUNG / Diedrich Diederichsen über den Intendantenwechsel an der Berliner Volksbühne
BEGEHREN IN BETON / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer über die Feuerle -Collection
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
OF DREAMS, LIES, AND WIRES / Tom McDonough on Adam Curtis’s “HyperNormalisation”
MEDIALER GESTUS / Rainer Bellenbaum über Douglas Gordons Film
„I Had Nowhere to Go“
EU DESESPERO E ABRAÇO A TUA AUSÊNCIA:
“AQUARIUS” OR CINEMA AFTER NEO-FASCISM / Daniel R. Quiles on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Aquarius”
FAST UNANGENEHM DEUTLICH / Anke Dyes und Anna Voswinckel über Jill Soloways
Fernsehserie „I love Dick“
ROTATION
MACH ES NICHT SELBST / Daniel Loick über „Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene“ von Donna Haraway
(POST-)EMPIRE STATE OF MIND / Emily Segal on Cat Marnell’s “How to Murder Your Life”
RELEVANTE UPDATES / Christian Egger über Raymond Pettibon im
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
SHORT WAVES
Micaela Durand on Heji Shin at Real Fine Arts, New York / Arne Schmitt über Candida Höfer im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein / Hans-Jürgen Hafner über Peter Duka bei Zwinger Galerie / Ana Finel Honigman on Dan Attoe at Peres Projects, Berlin / Tina Schulz über Willem Oorebeek im Magazin 4 in Bregenz
REVIEWS
ZUCKER UND SHAME / Ulrike Bergermann über „Deutscher Kolonialismus“
im Deutschen Historischen Museum, Berlin
MODELS AND AGENCIES / Ben Caton on “The Ulm Model” at Raven Row, London
ART HISTORY, REMASTERED / Abbe Schriber on Kerry James Marshall at the Met Breuer, New York
AESTHETICIZED PLAY / Stefaan Vervoort on Ludger Gerdes at the Museum Haus Lange,
Krefeld, Germany
NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES
BARBARA WEISS (1960–2016)
by Monika Baer and John Miller
by Andreas Siekmann
JOHN BERGER (1926–2017)
by Tom Holert
by Svetlana Alpers
2016, English / German
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Issue #104 of TzK examines a key protagonist of the modern age: the individual. As our cover suggests, there is an inherent tragedy to this being who, however autonomous, is beholden to a program that it must internalize at the price of suffering enormously. This issue takes up the individual not as a fixed subject, but as a mode of the self that shifts according to the current form of governance, asking how 15-some years of the "new spirit of capitalism" has shaped her – as an artist, as an entrepreneur, as a "productive" contemporary self.
ISSUE NO. 104 / DECEMBER 2016 “THE INDIVIDUAL”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
INVEST YOURSELF! / Wendy Brown in conversation with Isabelle Graw
NINA POWER
FROM THE ONE TO THE MANY
CAN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF TWEET? / An interview with Ulrich Bröckling
BUFFERING OF THE SELF: GUISING IN THE MID-’00S / Storm van Helsing, André Rottmann, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Reena Spaulings, @lilinternet, i.i.i., Luther Blissett -- on -- Luther Blissett, JT LeRoy, Reena Spaulings, @lonelygirl15, Claire Fontaine, An Hero, Lee Williams, and Strom van Helsing
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
SPEECH GESTURES / Notes on the individual and the socialization of language after Gutenberg
WOLFGANG RUPPERT
PRODUCING INDIVIDUALITY / The Artist among his Contemporaries
I’M NOT PUNK / Alex Israel in conversation with Texte zur Kunst
BILDSTRECKE
ANNA HAIFISCH
PORTFOLIO
ROTATION
FEEDBACK FÜR BLINDE FLECKE / Karin Gludovatz über „Jenseits des Spiegels. Das Sehen in Kunstgeschichte und Visual Culture Studies“ von Susanne von Falkenhausen
WORLD WIDE WEB / Anthony Vidler on Felicity D. Scott’s “Outlaw Territories”
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
LANGSAMER ABSCHIED / Esther Buss über Albert Serras „La mort de Louis XIV“
DAS SICH SELBST TRÄUMENDE INTERNET / Sulgi Lie über Werner Herzogs „Lo and Behold. Reveries of the Connected World“
KLANG KÖRPER
SHARING ANGST / Gaby Tront on Anne Imhof's "Angst II" at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
SHORT WAVES
Mikael Brkic on Alex Israel at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo / Steven Warwick on Morag Keil at Eden Eden, Berlin / Hanna Magauer über Dana Schutz bei Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin / Tonio Kröner über Amelie von Wulffen in der Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin / Kari Rittenbach on Margaret Lee at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York / Susanne von Falkenhausen über „Die zu sein scheint, die bin ich.“ Birgit Jürgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding und Francesca Woodman in der Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
REVIEWS
INDIVIDUELLER ORIENT / Diedrich Diederichsen über Michael Buthe im Haus der Kunst, München
ÜBERBLENDUNGSVERHÄLTNISSE / Sabeth Buchmann über Ellen Cantor im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
… MY MERE SELF / Rachel Haidu on Kai Althoff at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
DIE KUNST DER STUNDE / Susanne Leeb über Kader Attia im Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / M.
RUBY STERLING ZEIGT STERLING RUBY / Tanja Widmann und Inka Meißner über Sterling Ruby im Winterpalais Wien
DAS VIRTUELLE IM PHYSISCHEN / Hanne Loreck über Katrin Mayer und Eske Schlüters in der Kunsthalle Lingen
WHY BOTHER WITH SHOW BUSINESS? / Bosko Blagojevic on Antek Walczak at Real Fine Arts, New York
WERKE / Nikola Dietrich über Karl Holmqvist und Klara Lidén im Kunstverein Braunschweig
OBITUARY
BIRD OF PARADISE / Frank Wagner (1958–2016) in the words of Julie Ault
EDITION
ROBERT LONGO
OSCAR MURILLO
COSIMA VON BONIN
2016, English / German
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TZK #103 addresses "poetry," a language form central to the recent shift toward affect in contemporary critical writing. Seeing the “artist-poet” as a vital site for the intersection of politics, affect, and digitality, we consider her voice and her currency from various perspectives, pro and con, across generations, analyzing her rising success, also asking what is gained and lost in this move from "rational" thought to what one feels? Scanning populist poetry, anarchist poetry, post-millennial net-poetry, the poetry of surplus-language and social media, the art historical poetic/poet-turned-object, and shades of fading Poesie, this issue, conceived by the editors with John Kelsey and Isabelle Graw explores how the seeming immediacy of #poetry and the suggestion of a hyper-personal voice correlates with current economic demand to claim visibility.
ISSUE NO. 103 / SEPTEMBER 2016 “POETRY”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
TIM GRIFFIN
WHAT IS POETRY?
JOSHUA CLOVER
OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING / Remarks on Subjectivity and Poetry
ISABELLE GRAW
THE POET'S SEDUCTION / Six Theses on Marcel Broodthaers’s Contemporary Relevance
LIZ KOTZ
WORD PIECES, EVENT SCORES, COMPOSITIONS
MONIKA RINCK
THE PROMISE OF POETIC LANGUAGE
ADA O'HIGGINS
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE REFLECTION. DON’T LOOK IN THE MIRROR. I DON’T CARE.
CHRIS KRAUS AND ARIANA REINES
THE FEELINGS I FAIL TO CAPITALIZE, I FAIL / Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines in conversation on auto-fiction and biography
FELIX BERNSTEIN
THE IRREPROACHABLE ESSAY / On the Amazon Discourse of Hybrid Literature
DANIELA SEEL
IMMEDIACY, I MEET WITH SKEPTICISM / Three questions for Daniela Seel
MICAELA DURAND
DEVIL SHIT
KAROLIN MEUNIER
HEARING VOICES / On the reading and performance of poetry
DENA YAGO
EMPIRE POETRY
SHORT CUT
FOUR THESES ON BRANDING / David Joselit on Berlin Biennale 9
MANTRAS DER GEGENWART / Hanna Magauer über die Berlin Biennale 9
ROTATION
SEHNSUCHT NACH DER VERLORENEN STADT / Johannes Paul Raether über "spiritus" von Honey-Suckle Company
BENJAMIN BUCHLOH, ART HISTORIAN / Christine Mehring on Benjamin H. D. Buchloh’s “Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art”
ES WAR ZWEIMAL SAGTE SIE / Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic über Eva Meyers „Legende sein“
LESS IS MORE? / John Miller on Justin Lieberman’s “The Corrector’s Custom Pre-Fab House”
SO MACHEN WIR'S / Eva Geulen über „The Use of Bodies“ (Homo Sacer IV.2) von Giorgio Agamben
SHORT WAVES
Gunter Reski über Victor Man bei MD 72, Berlin / Harry Burke on Dean Blunt at Arcadia Missa, London / Rhea Dall on Stephen G. Rhodes at Eden Eden, Berlin / Tobias Vogt über Thea Djordjadze bei Sprüth Magers, Berlin / Deanna Havas on Marc Kokopeli at Lomex, New York / Martin Herbert on Fredrik Værslev at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
REVIEWS
HABEAS CORPUS / Simon Baier über Francis Picabia im Kunsthaus Zürich
MARCEL BROODTHAERS, ART HISTORIAN’S ARTIST / Trevor Stark on Marcel Broodthaers at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
MALEREI ALS SOZIALES HANDELN? / Christian Spies über Fernand Léger im Museum Ludwig, Köln
SIMULIERTE MUSEALISIERUNG / Philipp Kleinmichel über Isa Genzken im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
ELEGANCE IS RESISTANCE / Stephanie LaCava on Lukas Duwenhögger at Artists Space, New York
NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES
TONY CONRAD (1940–2016)
by Diedrich Diederichsen
by Jay Sanders
EDITION
MARTHA ROSLER
AMY SILLMAN
AMY SILLMAN
2016, English / German
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Art and fashion have always been interrelated. And it’s due to fashion’s ability to quickly capture social shifts that the art world has repeatedly turned to it. But as Texte zur Kunst No. 102 proposes, it is fashion’s protagonists, recently, that have been markedly drawing on art conceptual practices (e.g., parasitism, collective authorship, détournement, and forms of institutional critique) as they push back against the pressures of a hyper-accelerated fashion market. In this issue, TzK examines, also, how the industry’s current volume is a product of its late-'00s promise of online democratization; the changing function of such long-held value designations as “luxury,” “discount,” and “underground,” and the role of “real”-er bodies in a climate wherein models are preferably “nodels” or “othered” bodies, hyper-individualised to stand out in the stream.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ROBERT KULISEK & DAVID LIESKE
FASHION PROFILES OF:
69 WORLDWIDE / NASIR MAZHAR / KYLE LUU / BERNADETTE VAN-HUY / LIAM HODGES / TELFAR / NIK KOSMAS & JEANNE-SALOMÉ ROCHAT / MARTINE ROSE / JULIANA HUXTABLE / ECKHAUS LATTA / DIS / NHU DUONG /
with texts by Harry Burke, Tess Edmonson, Jack Gross, and Bianca Heuser
INGEBORG HARMS "CRYSTAL MESH / Existential imagery in current fashion"
COLLECTIVE SOUL / Jessica Gysel in conversation with Lotta Volkova Adam and Atelier E.B. (Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie)
CAROLINE BUSTA "NEO-BODIES"
NATASHA STAGG "ACCESS CODING"
PHILIPP EKARDT "DRESSING AFTER THE GREAT DIVIDE / The emancipation of Jonathan Anderson"
CALLA HENKEL & MAX PITEGOFF "LAST NIGHT"
ROTATION
IN DER FRÜHE / Peter Geimer über Friedrich Kittlers „Baggersee“
RETURNS OF THE STONE AGE / Sven Lütticken on the exhibition publications for “Kunst der Vorzeit” and “Allegory of the Cave Painting”
ZUR KULTURPOLITISCHEN BEKÄMPFUNG DER MODERNEN KUNST / Otto Karl Werckmeister über die neue Ausgabe von Hitlers „Mein Kampf“
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
DURATIONAL FASHION / Sara Marcus on K8 Hardy’s “Outfitumentary”
KLANG KÖRPER
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO ELECTRIC LADYLAND / Barbara Vinken über Michaela Melián im Lenbachhaus, München
EINE KULTURGESCHICHTE DER ENTGRENZUNGEN / Daniel Martin Feige über „I Got Rhythm. Kunst und Jazz seit 1920“ im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
SHORT WAVES
Jens Hoffmann on “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” at the Met Breuer, New York / Magdalena Nieslony über Agnes Martin im K20, Düsseldorf / Dena Yago on Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri, and Sergei Tcherepnin at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis / Eva Wilson on Das Institut at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London / Julia Moritz on Tobias Madison at Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
REVIEWS
MARIUS UND DIE INFORMATION / Hans-Christian Dany über „Nervöse Systeme. Quantifiziertes Leben und die soziale Frage“ im Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
DIE KUNST VERACHTEN, DEN REST DER WELT ANKLAGEN /Susanne von Falkenhausen über Boris Lurie im Jüdischen Museum Berlin
DEUTSCHES VITRINENGLAS / Steffen Zillig über Dierk Schmidt bei KOW, Berlin
NOTHING BUT KINDNESS / Verena Dengler über Lili Reynaud-Dewar in der Galerie Emanuel Layr, Wien
EARLY SYSTEMS ESTHETICS / Craig Buckley on Les Levine at Buell Hall, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York
WHAT A BODY CAN’T DO / Sophie Goltz über Regina José Galindo im Frankfurter Kunstverein und Maria José Arjona in der Kunsthalle Osnabrück
NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES
PIERRE BOULEZ (1925–2016)
by Björn Gottstein
ZAHA HADID (1950–2016)
by Than Hussein Clark
EDITION
JOHN MILLER
TORBJØRN RØDLAND
2016, English / German
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ISSUE NO. 101 / MARCH 2016 “POLARITIES”
Issue No. 101 of Texte zur Kunst takes “Polarities” as its theme – a term we associate with what’s unfolding around us right now: ideological polarization, from Pegida to Donald Trump. How do we understand the growing gap between the ideals of tech/smooth space (where the art world tends to reside, swiftly neutralizing any resistance as “content”) and the striated regions of material unrest? How do we understand “polarization” despite our dominant, and inherently continuous, neoliberal system? Given these macro conditions in which art critical and art historical discourses are currently being formed, and within which they will need to position themselves, could the image of polarization be something not to avoid but to engage; perhaps even a potentially generative model for times that are anything but ideology-free?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ET SOUS LA PLAGE … ? / Philipp Felsch interviews Timothy Brennan on the state of left theory
HELMUT DRAXLER
ALWAYS POLARIZE? / Conditions and limitations of a model of argumentation
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, SECURITY / Four questions for Carolin Emcke
ENTER THE VOID / Roy Scranton and @LILINTERNET on hyperreality and reflexive narrative
DANIEL COLUCCIELLO BARBER AND DAVIS RHODES
THE TERROR WITHIN
ANTEK WALCZAK
GLOBALLY POSITIONED
GABRIELE WERNER
HEIMAT / Notes on the enduring renaissance of an idea
BILDSTRECKE
GERHARD RICHTER
"12 PHOTOGRAPHS OF ULRIKE MEINHOF" / Taken in October 1966 for "Konkret" by Inge-Maria Peters
NEW DEVELOPMENT
NATIONAL CUSTOMS / Sven Lütticken on Germany's Kulturgutschutzgesetz
ROTATION
IST DER MENSCH DOCH NOCH ZU RETTEN? / Svenja Bromberg über Nina Powers Aufsatzsammlung „Das kollektive politische Subjekt“
HEY MOTHERFUCKERS, HERE IS YOUR GENERATIONAL NOVEL / Tobias Madison über Seth Prices Roman „Fuck Seth Price“
SHORT WAVES
Hans-Jürgen Hafner über Daniel Richter in der Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M. / Astrid Mania über Verena Pfisterer bei Exile, Berlin / Ana Teixeira Pinto on Július Koller at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw / Beate Söntgen über Joan Mitchell im Museum Ludwig, Köln / Daniel Keller on Peter Fend at Barbara Weiss and Oracle, Berlin / Manfred Hermes über Anne Speier bei Silberkuppe, Berlin
REVIEWS
SPERRIGE NAHEVERHÄLTNISSE / Eva Kernbauer über „to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer. Künstlerische Praktiken um 1990“ im Mumok, Wien
DER GESCHMACK DES PRIVATEN / Barbara Buchmaier und Christine Woditschka über die Sammlung Würth im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
BENEFITS / Sarah Lookofsky on “Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
NOBODY EVER DID WHAT WE DID / David Rimanelli on Dash Snow at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut
MALEREI MALGRÉ TOUT / Maria Muhle über „Painting 2.0“ im Museum Brandhorst, München
PUNK’S NOT DEAD, JUST DIFFERENT / Gili Tal on “Rum, sodomy, and the lash” at Eden Eden, Berlin
WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU / Jenny Nachtigall on Carolee Schneemann at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
FREMDE ZUNGEN / Yilmaz Dziewior über „Slip of the Tongue“ in der Punta della Dogana, Venedig
LOCAL UNION / Rhea Anastas on Union Gaucha Productions at Artists Space, New York
EDITION
THEA DJORDJADZE
DANA SCHUTZ
2015, English / German
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ISSUE NO. 100
DECEMBER 2015
„THE CANON“
“Our 100th issue is dedicated to the question of the “canon.” We take up this theme with an interest in reflecting on the journal’s own role in the field of contemporary art — one that, when first initiated in 1990, was markedly counter-canonical, vigorously contesting certain methods of critique while supporting others. And yet, we pause here to acknowledge that after 25 years, we have also doubtlessly played a crucial part in shaping a particular discourse, even normativizing it to some degree. Could it even be said that TzK has established a canon in its own right? With this issue, we now take stock of what TzK’s relationship to the canon might be, and moreover, what the notion of canonicity in 2015 might now represent.”
ISSUE NO. 100 / DECEMBER 2015 “THE CANON”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
TOM HOLERT IN PRAISE OF PRESUMPTUOUSNESS: “KANON-POLITIK ” (1992) REVISITED
DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN
MIKE KELLEY
SABETH BUCHMANN
MEDIAL (SELF-)MOVEMENT
ISABELLE GRAW
CANON AND CRITIQUE: AN INTERPLAY / Heimo Zobernig
JULIANE REBENTISCH
25 ARTISTS FROM 1990 TO 2015 / And 25 reasons why each belongs in the Texte zur Kunst canon
GERTRUD KOCH
POLYPHONY OR DISSONANCE / Are there artists lost in the canon?
KERSTIN STAKEMEIER
MORE MANNERISM / Ruth May and Jan Molzberger
GUNTER RESKI
EMBEDDED NUDES / Arno Rink
ALEXANDER GARCÍA DÜTTMANN
OLD WOMEN / Maria Lassnig’s “Du oder ich” (You or me), 2005
BEATE SÖNTGEN
ROSEMARIE TROCKEL
NICK MAUSS
IAN WHITE
TESS EDMONSON
DIS
HANNA MAGAUER
POST-INTERNET: THE NEW ORDER
JOSEPHINE PRYDE
THE INDIVIDUAL
CAROLINE BUSTA
BAD CANON
SIMON DENNY
DISRUPT
KEN OKIISHI
CITIZENSHIP
VALENTINA LIERNUR
SELF-REFLECTIVE SUBJECTS
JUTTA KOETHER
FIGURE OF PAINT: ON THE INCONTROVERTIBLE!
ALICE CREISCHER AND ANDREAS SIEKMANN
TUCUMÁN ARDE
PAMELA M. LEE
GROUP MATERIAL
FELIX VOGEL
MARTIN BECK
SVEN BECKSTETTE
STURTEVANT
CLAIRE FONTAINE
TOWARD A CANONIC FREEDOM
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
FALLING APART, TOGETHER
ROBERT KULISEK AND DAVID LIESKE
HUSBANDS HAVE GOT TO DIE! / A conversation about Taryn Simon
BRIGITTE WEINGART
GREAT & SMALL
HELMUT DRAXLER
CANON OF EXISTENCE, ETHICS OF THE BREAK
ROTATION
ELECTROCONVULSIVE LIT / John Kelsey on Sylvère Lotringer’s “Mad Like Artaud”
REVIEWS
VERWISCHTE GRENZEN / Robert Müller über „Radikal Modern. Planen und Bauen im Berlin der 1960er-Jahre“ in der Berlinischen Galerie
AGING INTO NEW WORLDS: DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT / Bettina Funcke surveys five fall 2015 shows in New York
ANGEWANDTER HISTOMAT / Ariane Müller über „to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer. Künstlerische Praktiken um 1990“ im Mumok, Wien
ENIGMA IN THE MIRROR / Luis Felipe Fabre on “In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni” at Museo Jumex, Mexico City
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD / Nuit Banai on R. H. Quaytman at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
IST KUNST EIN SEXUALPROBLEM? / Eva Birkenstock über Lea Lublin im Lenbachhaus, München
HERE'S NOT HERE / Damon Sfetsios and Elise Duryee-Browner on Stephan Dillemuth at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
WEAK LOCAL LINEAMENTS / Gareth James on Sam Lewitt at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
OBITUARIES
PETER SCHEIFFELE (1971–2015)
by Ilka Becker
CHANTAL AKERMAN (1950–2015)
by Tim Griffin
EDITION
JOHN BALDESSARI
NHU DUONG
PETER FISCHLI/DAVID WEISS
WADE GUYTON
RACHEL HARRISON
SARAH MORRIS
ALBERT OEHLEN
RICHARD PHILLIPS
SETH PRICE
GERHARD RICHTER
ROSEMARIE TROCKEL
2015, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
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Decades following the rise of computer aided design and the aesthetic-theoretical debates that coincided, it might seem late, at this point, to place a spotlight on photography. After all, hardly anyone defends photography’s loyalty to the analog index anymore, or mourns the medium specificities of centuries past. And yet, who can dispute that the photograph has become the primary base for establishing identity now, for cohering a social body; one that, as the substrate across which today’s human subject is drawn, stands as, in a sense,our material support? As the image’s gaze has become omnipresent, it is perhaps prime time to ask how do we now understand photo-media to operate? What information do we expect it to carry? What facts do we trust it to convey?
ISSUE NO. 99 / SEPTEMBER 2015 “PHOTOGRAPHY”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
LOST TRACES OF LIFE / A conversation about indexicality in analog and digital photography between Isabelle Graw and Benjamin Buchloh
LORETTA FAHRENHOLZ
SCANNERS
ROBIN KELSEY
PHOTOGRAPHY, LACAN, AND THE GENIUS OF JEFF KOONS
PETER OSBORNE
THE DISTRIBUTED IMAGE
ANNA GASKELL
LIFE IN THE SYSTEM
TIMUR SI-QIN
TRUE LIES
MICHAEL HAGNER
THE PHOTOBOOK, POST-DIGITAL
CLEMENS JAHN
PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY
SETH PRICE
LECTURE ON THE EXTRA PART
BILDSTRECKE
BENJAMIN ASAM KELLOGG
OCULUS DEMOS MAXIMUS
SHORT CUTS
FUTURE NOT PRESENT / Helmut Draxler, Susanne von Falkenhausen, Amy Sillman, and Hong Zeiss on the 56th Venice Biennale
NEW DEVELOPMENT
DREAMING IN TRENDS / Michael Wang on the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
NO EXPO / Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho on the Fondazione Prada, Milan
OPEN SEASON / Nikoloz Japaridze with Natasha Randall on the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
ROTATION
HART SPRECHEN FÜR EINE GEMEINSAME WELT / Christian Kravagna über "Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft" von Achille Mbembe
GARY COOPER'S LIPSTICK / Thomas Beard on Boyd McDonald's "Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to 'Oldies' on TV"
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
WETRANSFER: MEDIATING THE MEDIATED SELF / Carson Chan on Britta Thie's "Translantics"
KLANG KÖRPER
WIR SIND GAR NICHT HIER / Joy Kristin Kalu über Richard Maxwells "The Evening", The Kitchen, New York
SHORT WAVES
Megan Francis Sullivan on Birgit Megerle at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna / Nuit Banai on Josef Strau at Secession, Vienna / Nina Franz über Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff in der Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
REVIEWS
BLAUE FLECKEN / Alexander García Düttmann über De La Fuente Oscar De Franco im Helmhaus, Zürich
HEARTS OF CONTROL / Dan Mitchell on Gili Tal at Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn
JEDERMANNS AUTOBIOGRAFIE / Kerstin Stakemeier über Mark Leckey im Haus der Kunst, München
MIT INDIEGOGO NACH PIONEERTOWN / Michael Kral über Pierre Bismuth in der Galerie Jan Mot, Brüssel
ALTE GEISTER / Philip Ursprung über Albert Oehlen in der Kunsthalle Zürich
OBITUARY
LAWRENCE WEINER
DOROTHEE FISCHER (1937-2015)
2015, English/German
Softcover, 288 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
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Going beyond discussions of post-Net production in the digital realm, this issue invites in the ghost of Friedrich Kittler to address “media” via the nexus of its fraught theoretical legacy – ’90s techno-determinism versus the biopolitical forces of capital in the social field. What if, rather than writing a social history of media, we thought through media to read our social sphere? The fallout is recombined here as a framework for engaging, and perhaps upending, contemporary relations of body, class, and power and the devices and cultural techniques by which they are bound.
2015, English / German
Softcover, 264 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
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Exile and marginality, network availability, mass- versus subcultural identities, privilege, opting (versus dropping) out – these are elements this issue takes on. The fading of bohemia’s appeal is no doubt linked in part to a growing preference for the web’s promise of total-connectivity. Though could another factor be at work here too: an underlying sense that perhaps the real displacement and disenfranchisement after which romantic notions of “bohemia” were later formed may again be a very real threat?
ISSUE NO. 97 / MARCH 2015 “BOHEMIA”
ENGLISH CONTENTS include:
DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN
THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT
“Faces of bohemia at one hundred and fifty”
THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE AT THE SYSTEMIC EDGE
Three questions for Saskia Sassen
AT THE END OF ALTERNATIVES
An interview with Cornelia Koppetsch
PHILIPP EKARDT
FIORUCCI MADE ME NORMCORE / Five observations on art, style, and scenes today
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
BOHEMIA = UTOPIA?
DANIEL KELLER
HOTTEST NEW ALT MARRIAGE STACK SOLUTIONS / Paratext and Glossary by Ella Plevin
CAROLINE BUSTA
BASIC INSTINCT / Cyber-channels and the female pose
STEPHAN DILLEMUTH
WHAT’S YOUR NAME, BOHEMIA?
THE DEATH OF ILLUSION / An interview with Noura Wedell
MORAG KEIL
BOHEMIA COMMISSION
O CRONENBERG! (A SPOILER) / Mark von Schlegell on David Cronenberg’s recent movie “Maps to the Stars” and novel “Consumed”
Nick Zedd on Greer Lankton at Participant Inc, New York
Tess Edmonson on Amalia Ulman at James Fuentes, New York
Ana Teixeira Pinto on Oliver Laric at Tanya Leighton, Berlin
NOT ONLY THE HEART IS NOT A METAPHOR / Rachel Haidu on Robert Gober at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
TOTAL CONFUSION / Christian Naujoks on Cosima von Bonin at Mumok, Vienna
GLOOM / Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho on the Taipei Biennial 2014
A GLIMPSE AT THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAINTINGS / Catherine Chevalier on Marcel Duchamp at Centre Pompidou, Paris
LEWIS BALTZ (1945–2014)
by Jeff Rian
EDITION
TOMMA ABTS
AVERY SINGER