MAY #2

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

IN THIS ISSUE:
Riding out of the Sunset, or: How to Cover the Sunrise with a Thumb in Guantánamo Bay
Magali Arriola

Pragmatique de l’hétérotopie
Heterotopias: Pragmatics
Dork Zabunyan

Event/Non Event
Merlin Carpenter at Gallery Dépendance
Catherine Chevalier

Installation et intervention
Juliane Rebentisch

“Do you work hard? Do you try hard? You don’t.Chicago, now!”
Anthony Elms

Series Calais, 2006-2008
Bruno Serralongue

« Effleurer des zones dangereuses rend réel l’intevalle entre évasion et attraction.»
« Les objets dangereux sont des lieux séduisants à vivre. »
Gallien Dejean

Teen Image
Seth Price

Retour en terrain inconnu
Discussion : Thomas Boutoux, Catherine Chevalier, Benjamin Thorel et Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez.

TARZAN, or Rousseau among the Waziri
Quai Branly
Lili Reynaud Dewar

Une Semaine de Bonté,
or Introduction to the Reading of Hegel
David Lewis

Without "hers"
Or, some remarks on the exhibition of women artists at the Centre Pompidou
Elvan Zabunyan

Paper Trail: Do You Love Me? at Kunstverein Munich
Jay Chung

Danh Vo at Kunsthalle Basel
Karl Holmqvist