ISSUE 30 (WINTER 2011)
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ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
by/von Saâdane Afif
ESSAY
Changes in the Economy of the kunstbetrieb, Part 3: The Freedom of the Curator
by/von Daniel Baumann
ARTISTS TALK
Markus Schinwald talks to DAVID CRONENBERG about cinematic sublimation and blank beginnings
CURATOR’S KEY
FABRICE STROUN, forthcoming director of the Kunsthalle Bern on “O-ism” by Jim Shaw
GALLERIES
Jennifer Teets on the new programmgalerie MARCELLE ALIX, Paris
INSTITUTION
DAVID ROBERTS ART FOUNDATION in London is a new and innovative exhibition space by a private collector
by/von Adam Carr
COLLECTIONS
A secret history of art: STEVEN LEIBER’S collection of art ephemera in San Francisco
by/von Matthew Post
PORTRAIT TOM BURR
Camp, appropriation and politics meet in the work of this American artist
An Interview by Gianni Jetzer
PORTRAIT MOYRA DAVEY
Fionn Meade finds an obsession with collecting, systematic listing and nostalgic resistance in the photographs of this Canadian artist
PORTRAIT PETER FRIEDL
ThisAustrian artist never fails to surprise with unexpected strategies that defy all trends
by/von Raimar Stange
ART & POLITICS
Adam E. Mendelsohn takes a look at Occupy Wall Street and asks some players in the art world what they make of it
ARTIST’S READINGS
ANNIKA VON HAUS SWOLF F talks to Mika Hannula about Maurice Blanchot’s “The Madness of the Day”
ARCHITECTURE
Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia in New Orleans reveals the topicality of postmodernism
by/von Michele D’Aurizio
SEDUCTION oder Die Dinge, die wir mögen /
or the things we like
REVIEWS
Reviews of international exhibitions /
Besprechungen internationaler Ausstellungen
THE PFAFF BROTHERS
A Child is Born on the Internet /
Ein Kind ward geboren im Internet
Impressum/Imprint
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ISSUE 31 (SPRING 2012)
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MIKE KELLEY (1954–2012)
By/von Adam E. Mendelsohn
ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
By / von Adrian Piper: Leonid Mezheritski, James Gregory Atkinson, Tisha Mukarji, Jakob Schaible, Beny Wagner
7TH BERLIN BIENNALE
The Berlin Biennial is going to be curated for the second time by an artist, Artur Żmijewski. Andreas Schlaegel met with him and also asked artist Paola Yacoub and philosopher Mika Hannula for statements on the BB7 programme
CURATOR’S KEY
Bettina Steinbrügge, Curator at the Austrian Gallery Belvedere in Vienna, on “White Women” by Loulou Cherinet
GALLERIES
Karol Sienkiewicz sees Galeria Stereo in Poznań as one of Poland’s most important young galleries
INSTITUTION
Extra City in Antwerp has one of the highest profiles among discourse-oriented exhibition spaces. Its director, Mihnea Mircan, in conversation with Koen Brams
PORTRAIT LILI REYNAUD-DEWAR
Sun Ra comes face to face with the artist’s mother, Jean Genet meets her professor, and Rastafarians spread their message in the USA. Julien Fronsacq on French artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar
PORTRAIT RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA
The Thai artist talks about the origins of his art in Far Eastern thought.
An interview by Raimar Stange
PORTRAIT PAUL SIETSEMA
Jonas Žakaitis takes a narrative approach to the works of this enigmatic American artist
ARTIST’S READINGS
FranzWest in conversation with Andreas Reiter Raabe on the importance of reading in his life and work
NO IDEA
Thought samples by Noël Akchoté on music, contemporary art, authenticity and representation
KILLING THE ARCHIVE
Why we have to jettison the ballast of the past
By Nick Currie
WHY PAINT CATS?
Karen Archey on a subgenre of contemporary art: cat art
SEDUCTION oder Die Dinge, die wir mögen /
or the things we like
REVIEWS
Reviews of international exhibitions /
Besprechungen internationaler Ausstellungen
THE PFAFF BROTHERS
Lo
ISSUE 32 (SUMMER 2012)
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DAVID WEISS (1946–2012)
By/von Cathérine Hug
ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
By/Von Ion Grigorescu: Florina Coulin, Ovidiu Fenes, Bogdan Vladuta, Paul Gherasim, Matei Lazarescu
ESSAY
The fifth part in our series exploring multiple roles in the art world: Markus Miessen’s plea for the incompetent master
CURATOR’S KEY
Charles Esche on/über den Raum der Gegenwart (1930/ 2009) by/von László Moholy-Nagy
GALLERIES
Communication is more important than sales. Gregor Quack on the Berlin-based Chert gallery
INSTITUTION
What role can an Egyptian art institution play during a time of upheaval? Sarah Rifky speaks with William Wells about Townhouse Gallery in Cairo
COLLECTION
Curator Ami Barak is in charge of the Pomeranz Collection in Vienna
By/von Maximilian Geymüller
PORTRAIT ROE ETHRIDGE
From still lifes and fashion shoots to the everyday.
Fionn Meade talks with the American artist
A PUBLIC PLATFORM
John Beeson on the recent performance-related works by Wojciech Kosma, Gerry Bibby, Juliette Blightman, and Malin Arnell
PORTRAIT URSULA MAYER
The artificial, modernist architecture, dreamlike image sequences
Filipa Ramos on the Austrian-born artist
PORTRAIT JIMMIE DURHAM
Jonas Žakaitis dives into the two themes that are essential to Durham’s work: language and material
JUNGE SCHWEIZER SZENE
Lo-fi and clean surfaces. Tenzing Barshee on the brand of the »young Swiss artist«
ARTIST’S READINGS
Daniel Baumann and British artist Alan Kane speak about John Berger’s Ways of Seeing
PERFORMANCE
Facing those parts of the past that have been hushed up. The Living Dance Studio from China at the
Wiener Festwochen
By/Von Georg Petermichl
SEDUCTION or the things we like
REVIEWS
Reviews of international exhibitions /Besprechungen internationaler Ausstellungen
THE PFAFF BROTHERS
Found Commandments /Gefundene Gebote
Impressum/ Imprint
The
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ISSUE 33 (AUTUMN 2012)
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ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
Von /By Haegue Yang: Jimmie Durham, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega, Yiso Bahc, Beom Kim
DOCUMENTA 13
French curator Nicolas Bourriaud and American critic Fionn Meade have different views on the most important exhibition in the world
ESSAY
Tal Beery, member of Occupy Museums, on the artist as activist
CURATOR’S KEY
Krist Gruijthuijsen über /on On becoming something else (2009) von/by Ben Kinmont
GALLERIES
47 Canal, the young gallery in Downtown Manhattan owned by artist Margaret Lee and ex-director of Alexander-and-Bonin, Oliver Newton.
By/Von Karen Archey
INSTITUTION
Marina Fokodis founded Kunsthalle Athena with the goal of bringing the public arena into closer contact with art.
A conversation with Filipa Ramos
FRANZ WEST
The Austrian artist passed away in July
Pier Luigi Tazzi, Stefan Ratibor, Gelitin, and Denys Zacharopoulos remember him
PORTRAIT NICOLE EISENMAN
Between pathos and horseplay, dirty jokes and serious politics.
Joanna Fiduccia on the work of the American painter
PORTRAIT CHRISTIAN FALSNAES
The language and symbolism of demonstrations, powerful emotions, crowd surfing, karaoke, glam-rock costumes and 80s-style music videos.
Carson Chan in conversation with the performance artist Christian Falsnaes
PORTRAIT OSKAR FISCHINGER
The abstract animations of the German artist, an emigrant to LA, were long appreciated only by radical
formalists and avant-garde visionaries.
Fionn Meade on a rediscovery
ARTHUR BOTO CONLEY’S MUSIC WORKSHOP
Two records by the elusive ethnomusicologist Arthur Boto Conley
Von/By John Beeson
EMOTIONAL COMMUNISM
The spectre of communism is haunting the art biennials of Europe.
Von/By Nick Currie
SLOW FADING LA
Von/By Jon Leon
SEDUCTION
or the things we like
REVIEWS
Reviews of international exhibitions
THE PFAFF BROTHERS
Bodenkunde /Soil happens
Impressum/ Imprint
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ISSUE 35 (SPRING 2013): Materialising the Unthinkable
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ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
von/by Darren Bader: Gustave Courbet, Sandro Botticelli, Roe Ethridge, John Finneran, Clarice Lispector
TALK
Rita Vitorelli interviews Nicolaus Schafhausen about his curatorial vision, the value of discourse and causing a stir
CURATOR’S KEY
Chris Fitzpatrick über / on “Serial Protest Signs” by Frank Chu
GALLERIES
The Tokyo-based gallery Take Ninagawa discovers a new generation of artists comfortable with incongruity.
Von/By Nick Currie
INSTITUTION
Clémentine Deliss re-imagines the collection of the World Cultures Museum in Frankfurt through
collaborations with artists.
Von/By Jan-Philipp Possmann
PORTRAIT ED ATKINS
The perfect surfaces of the digital take on a deathly sheen in the videos of the British artist, creating a fertile ground for zombies.
Von/By Jennifer Krasinski
PORTRAIT HEINRICH DUNST
His experience in conceptual practice with roots in 80s Vienna, has made the Austrian
artist well versed in art’s discursive powers, and their limitations.
Von/By Hans-Jürgen Hafner
PORTRAIT COSIMA VON BONIN
Oliver Basciano considers the impact of varying professional expectations, poses and ploys in the practice of the Cologne based artist.
88 21ST CENTURY THEORY
The nature of objects, the role of science and the problematics of aesthetics are being approached by
a new generation of thinkers. Our ongoing series of 21st century thought opens with Quentin Meillassoux’s proposal for a new philosophical materialism.
With an introduction
by Armen Avanessian.
THE BODY UNDERSTOOD AS AN OBJECT
Performativity’s promise of emancipation has expired, according to performer and
choreographer Mårten Spångberg.
Von/By Filipa Ramos
ACID IN THE STYLE OF CAROLYN CHRISTOVBAKARGIEV
Digital composer Florian Hecker releases his documenta 13 sound work
»Chimeri
ISSUE 36 (SUMMER 2013): The Return of the Regional Curator
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ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
von / by Tobias Madison
Mathis Altmann; Jean-Pierre Gorin; Stefan Tcherepnin; Michael Asher, David Hammons, Maria Eichhorn @ Kunsthalle Bern; Carissa Rodriguez
TALK
Curators Aaron Moulton and Carson Chan discuss the challenges of a regional context, the legacy of land art and the influence of Mormonism in the Mountain West.
CURATOR’S KEY
Nav Haq über / on “Acid Brass” von / by Jeremy Deller
GALLERIES
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler gallery in Berlin represents primarily technology-savvy artists from
the post-internet generation.
Von / By Pablo Larios
PORTRAIT LUTZ BACHER
Poignant eulogies, black feminist humour. Californian artist Lutz Bacher dodges a signature style in favour of artistic unruliness.
Von / By Karen Archey
PORTRAIT CLAIRE FONTAINE
A sentiment of political impotence is both means and subject of the work of these French
»ready-made-artists«.
A critical appraisal by Raimar Stange
PORTRAIT MARIA LASSNIG
The representation of bodily experience and the discrepancies be tween sensory perceptions
and external forces have occupied the Austrian painter for sixty years.
Von / By Joanna Fiduccia
21ST CENTURY THEORY
A roundtable about the origins of speculative philosophical thought and its impact on contemporary art.
Moderated by Armen Avanessian
SYMBIONESE BREAK
Harmony Korine’s new film Spring Breakers is an exercise in postpolitical
terror.
Von / By Alex Kitnick
PUTTING FICTION INTO PRACTICE
David Shields’ How literature saved my life weaves together fiction, autobiography and criticism,
sparking Oliver Basciano to ruminate on new directions for art criticism.
THE POSTCONCEPTUAL PRESENT
Peter Osborne’s recent book Anywhere or Not at All proclaims a new philosophy of
contemporary art.
Von / By John Chilver
SEDUCTION or the t
ISSUE 37 (AUTUMN 2013): The Berlin Issue
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ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
von / by Mariana Castillo Deball: Ulises Carrión, Roger Caillois, Irene Kopelman, Mathematical Models of Göttingen University, Monsieur Teste
TALK
The curators Jay Sanders and Daniel Baumann discuss the Carnegie International, the significance of the museum, the playground and the art world’s increased interest in performance.
CURATOR’S KEY
Ellen Blumenstein on Mark Leckey’s “Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore” (1999)
GALLERIES
In just three years, São Paulo start-up Mendes Wood have built a firm base for their artists, as well as a broad international network.
Von / By Oliver Basciano
INSTITUTION
Banner Repeater is an artist-run space and book store located on a London train station, who are contextualizing the digital through various projects.
Von / By Alexander Scrimgeour
PORTRAIT ASHLEY BICKERTON
During the 80s, the American artist produced a series of »portraits« that he conceptualized into a brand and collectively titled Susie.
Von / By John C. Welchman
PORTRAIT PHILIPP QUEHENBERGER
With his enraptured freecore blending of electronic, jazz and experimental noise, the Austrian musician is best witnessed live.
Von / By Thomas Edlinger
PORTRAIT LAURE PROUVOST
Overlaying video material with idiosyncratic voiceovers, the London-based artist employs both sensory experience and formal experimentation.
Von / By John Beeson
88 The Berlin Issue
A collective portrait of one of the global capitals of the art world: essays by Ingo Niermann and Timo Feldhaus, talks among gallerists, Berlin in New York, Adam Linder and Wojciech Kosma about performance in the art context, Anselm Franke at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Paris project-space Shanaynay at abc.
21ST CENTURY THEORY
Suhail Malik questions what Speculative Realism’s insistence on a realism independent of a thinking human subject could
ISSUE 38 (WINTER 2013): Models of Play
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ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
von / by Antoine Catala:Margaret Lee, Franck Leibovici, Takeshi Murata, Donald Judd, Dean Kenning
CURATOR’S KEY
Raimundas Malašauskas on a letter by Argentinian artist Fernanda Laguna
GALLERIES
Ingo Niermann visits the Gallery of the Unbelievers in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany, and has an unusual experience.
INSTITUTION
In 1968, the Stockholm Moderna Museet was transformed by The Model, a children’s playground representing a model for a new qualitative society.
Von / By Antony Hudek
GAME OVER
What does it mean to click? Alexander Scrimgeour discovers the online game Cow Clicker and
speculates.
21ST CENTURY THEORY
To French artist Benoît Maire, an image or an object can become theory and a text can be read as an image.
PORTRAIT BRUCE McLEAN
When it is no longer on the plinth, a sculpture can be anywhere – on the shoulder, or in the pocket of the Scottish artist. An interview with curator Vincent Honoré.
PORTRAIT KWIEKULIK
Life, art and politics. The couple documented their collective art/lifestyle in meticulous detail in the communist Poland of the 70s and 80s. A profile by Karen Archey.
PORTRAIT DANIEL HOESL
The Austrian film Soldate Jeannette was realised on a minimal budget, without subsidies nor script, although you’d never know it by seeing it. Thomas Edlinger speaks with the director.
ESSAY
Artists’ assistants are emerging from invisibility and asserting their roles as artists in their own right.
Von / By Hans-Jürgen Hafner
SEDUCTION or the things we like
BOOKS
Christian Egger examines three recent books by Hans-Christian Dany, Tiqqun, Robert Fitterman & Vanessa Place
NEITHER NOR 2013
Our response to the end of year best/worst show ratings.
Von / By Timo Feldhaus, Piper Marshall, Daniel Baumann, John Beeson, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Raimar Stange
REVIEWS
Wien, Graz, Berlin, W
ISSUE 39 (SPRING 2014): The Network
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ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
von / by Antje Majewski: Issa Samb, Juliane Solmsdorf, Paweł Freisler, Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Leonore Mau
TALK
Alexander Scrimgeour talks to Ben Vickers about networks and institutions, new community-based social models, and the London post-Internet scene.
CURATOR’S KEY
Lars Bang Larsen über /on »Papkasseteatre« (1995)
von / by Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen
GALLERIES
Colin de Land was a kind of anti-gallerist; his gallery American Fine Arts, Co. was a kind of artwork.
Von / By Axel Wieder
INSTITUTION
The Vienna Secession is run by artists.
Von / By Martin Fritz
ESSAY
The media theorist Alexander R. Galloway on the asymmetric nature of networks and the Internet as the most highly regulated mass medium to date.
PORTRAIT BJARNE MELGAARD
Jennifer Krasinski meets the artist in New York and talks to him about the death drive in homosexual culture and his contribution to the Whitney Biennial.
PORTRAIT PETER WEIBEL
The contradictions of technological progress, communication systems, and the world of technical media are the preoccupations of the Austrian artist.
von / by Boris Groys
PORTRAIT PUSSY RIOT
Daniel Baumann on the Russian performance group and the difference between the local significance and global marketing of activism.
EXHIBITION HISTORIES
John Menick thinks back to the exhibition »GNS: Global Navigation System«.
SITE REPORT
Barbara Casavecchia on relationships and entanglements within Italy’s art scene.
FILM
A love affair in a post-digital world. Cécile B. Evans on Spike Jonze’s new film »Her«.
WEB
Oliver Basciano on Contemporary Art Daily and how it is changing our view of art.
PLATFORM
Dorothée Dupuis’ makes a case for an old concept: sisterhood.
SEDUCTION or the things we like
REVIEWS
Wien, Graz, Berlin, Karlsruhe, München, Zürich, London, Paris, New
ISSUE 40 (SUMMER 2014): Art under Capitalism
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MARIA LASSNIG (1919–2014) von / by Peter Pakesch
ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
von / by Metahaven: Johan Grimonprez, Katja Novitskova, Tapisserie
de Bayeux, Öyvind Fahlström, NSA
CURATOR’S KEY
Polly Staple über »Ein Begräbnis in Ornans« / on
A Burial at Ornans von / by Gustave Courbet
TALK
Gallerist Gavin Brown and curator Daniel Baumann gaze into a bleak future.
NEOLIBERAL ENTITIES
The Artist Pension Trust promises artists a land of milk and honey.
Von / By Alexander Scrimgeour
KUNSTBETRIEB
People are spending unprecedented sums on art. Buying as a buzz.
Von / By Andrew M. Goldstein & Homa Zarghamee
ESSAY
Kunst ist das neue Geld / Art is the new money.
Von / By Kolja Reichert
21ST CENTURY THEORY
Tiziana Terranova and Stefan Heidenreich talk about financialisation, workfare and debt.
PORTRAIT LAURIE PARSONS
The American artist spent only a few years in the art world. Bob Nickas thinks back on her work.
PORTRAIT ALEX ISRAEL
The Los Angeles-based artist’s work exudes a cool optimism. Jon Leon talks to him about nostalgia, style and taste.
PORTRAIT RAINER GANAHL
Marx, Lenin and Mao. The Austrian artist is passionately attached to left-wing figures and finds ways to bring them into the present.
Von / By Adam Kleinman
SHORT STORY
Lasset die Kinder / Suffer the Children.
Von / By Mark von Schlegell
EXHIBITION HISTORIES
»All this will one day be yours sweetheart«. Paul Maenz tells of a short evening in Frankfurt in 1967.
ENCOUNTERS
Jordan Wolfson’s dancing robot became the spectacular event of the New York spring.
Von / By Timo Feldhaus
BOOKS
Curzio Malaparte wrote his novel The Skin in 1949. A re-reading by Michele D’Aurizio
BERLIN
Timo Feldhaus seeks out the nooks and crannies between work, power, and capital at the tenth Gallery Weekend.
SEDUCTION or the things we like
REVIEW
ISSUE 40 (SUMMER 2014): Art under Capitalism
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MARIA LASSNIG (1919–2014) von / by Peter Pakesch
ARTIST’S FAVOURITES
von / by Metahaven: Johan Grimonprez, Katja Novitskova, Tapisserie
de Bayeux, Öyvind Fahlström, NSA
CURATOR’S KEY
Polly Staple über »Ein Begräbnis in Ornans« / on
A Burial at Ornans von / by Gustave Courbet
TALK
Gallerist Gavin Brown and curator Daniel Baumann gaze into a bleak future.
NEOLIBERAL ENTITIES
The Artist Pension Trust promises artists a land of milk and honey.
Von / By Alexander Scrimgeour
KUNSTBETRIEB
People are spending unprecedented sums on art. Buying as a buzz.
Von / By Andrew M. Goldstein & Homa Zarghamee
ESSAY
Kunst ist das neue Geld / Art is the new money.
Von / By Kolja Reichert
21ST CENTURY THEORY
Tiziana Terranova and Stefan Heidenreich talk about financialisation, workfare and debt.
PORTRAIT LAURIE PARSONS
The American artist spent only a few years in the art world. Bob Nickas thinks back on her work.
PORTRAIT ALEX ISRAEL
The Los Angeles-based artist’s work exudes a cool optimism. Jon Leon talks to him about nostalgia, style and taste.
PORTRAIT RAINER GANAHL
Marx, Lenin and Mao. The Austrian artist is passionately attached to left-wing figures and finds ways to bring them into the present.
Von / By Adam Kleinman
SHORT STORY
Lasset die Kinder / Suffer the Children.
Von / By Mark von Schlegell
EXHIBITION HISTORIES
»All this will one day be yours sweetheart«. Paul Maenz tells of a short evening in Frankfurt in 1967.
ENCOUNTERS
Jordan Wolfson’s dancing robot became the spectacular event of the New York spring.
Von / By Timo Feldhaus
BOOKS
Curzio Malaparte wrote his novel The Skin in 1949. A re-reading by Michele D’Aurizio
BERLIN
Timo Feldhaus seeks out the nooks and crannies between work, power, and capital at the tenth Gallery Weekend.
SEDUCTION or the things we like
REVIEW
ISSUE 41 (AUTUMN 2014): The Anniversary Issue
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Artist’s Favourites
by Matias Faldbakken: Lars Hertervig, Agnes Martin, Tore Kvæven, Anonymous, Hans Holbein der Jüngere / the Younger
Curator’s Key
Philippe Pirotte on »Crystal Chain Letter Complex (Dark Episode)«
von / by Corey McCorkle
Institution – Arab Image Foundation
Sarah Rogers on the role of the archive in the context of the Lebanese civil war.
Picture Spread
Mit / With Anne Collier, Šejla Kamerić, Christian Mayer, Torbjørn Rødland, Sue Williams
Essay
Bruce Hainley takes a photo of Justin Bieber losing his swag as the starting point for a reflection about the condition of art
Portrait: Hermann Nitsch
Piotr Uklanski visits Hermann Nitsch at his castle in Lower Austria.
Portrait: Laura Owens
The drop shadow offers an unlikely means for the Californian painter to rediscover the resources of the body.
von / by Joanna Fiduccia
Portrait: Meg Stuart
Adam Linder meets the Berlin-based choreographer and talks to her about resistance, and the importance of the image in dance.
Film
Jon Leon on emptiness and desire in the works of the controversial director Romain Gavras
Fashion
The Austrian fashion designer Roshi Porkar presented her debut collection at Berlin Fashion Week.
von / by Diana Weis
Books
Chris Kraus on the upsurge of interest in the literary outsider and punk icon Kathy Acker.
21st Century Theory
The media theorist Jussi Parakka sees media archaeology as an alternative to current accellerationist thinking.
Exhibition Histories
Daniel Baumann thinks back on David Hammons’s solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern, 1997
Essay
Performance art gets more Berghain
von / by Timo Feldhaus
Vienna Art Scene
Figures from Vienna’s art world compose a portrait of the city.
By Peter Pakesch, Stefanie Sargnagel, Martin Vesely, Andreas Spiegl, Gabriele Schor, Hubert Klock