THE MAKING OF THE CHINESE NEW WORKING CLASS THIRTY YEARS OF MIGRATION Chinas neue Arbeiterklasse Dreißig Jahre Wanderarbeit. Ludlow 38. Spector Books.

Vor 30 Jahren wurde in China eine Reformpolitik eingeleitet, die sich der westlichen Globalisierung öffnete. Als Ergebnis entstand eine neue Arbeiterklasse: die Wanderarbeiter, die mittlerweile mehr als 200 Millionen zählt und den wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg Chinas im weltweiten Wettbewerb überhaupt erst ermöglichte.

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frieze d/e #5 – Sommer / Summer 2012

Frieze d/e is a fully bilingual German/English magazine with its own editorial team and independent content. d/e stands for ‘Deutsch’ and ‘English.’ With editing and production based in Berlin, the new magazine offers in-depth coverage of contemporary art and culture throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland while closely following the international artist communities in this region.

Collaborators issue 5:
Jennifer Allen, Dominikus Müller, Jan Verwoert, Simon Rees, Barbara Preisig, Geeta Dayal, Kito Nedo, Carla Accardi, Metahaven, Andreas Schlaegel, Pablo Larios, Luca Cerizza, Michael Riedel, Raphael Gygax, Christy Lange

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San Rocco 04/ abstract
FUCK CONCEPTS! CONTEXT!

Contemporary architecture is generally presented with the phrase “My concept is . . . ”, in which the blank is filled in by some sort of notion: “My concept is freedom”, “My concept is the iPad”, “My concept is the Big Bang”, “My concept is democracy”, “My concept is panda bears”, “My concept
is M&M’s”. This statement is then followed by a PowerPoint presentation that begins with M&M’s and ends with round, pink bungalows on paradisiacal Malaysian beaches. According to concepts, to design is to find what buildings are: an ontology for dummies that turns banality into spectacle. Thus, the library is the books, the stadium is the muscles, the promenade is the beach, the aquarium is the fish, the swimming pool is the water and grandmother’s garage is grandmother.
Concepts protect us from running the risk of engaging with form. Why should we bother with form when we have an idea? Why waste time seeking beauty when we can claim that we are solving problems? Why think when we can happily sit around a table and do some brainstorming? Why take the pains to learn something when we can shout “Eureka!” in your face?
Anyhow, it is possible to escape from this selbstverschuldete Minderheit. Complexity exists, in re, in context. Cities and territories are here, and it is possible to understand them!

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CURA. No.11
SPRING — SUMMER 2012

Portraits in the Exhibition Space
Arnold Bode and the Perfect Combination of History,
Environment and Contemporary
by lorenzo benedetti

SPACES – Study Cases
Chapt. 2 – Emily Pethick / THE SHOWROOM London
by vincent honoré

MAKING AN EXHIBITION
On the Work and Role Play of Graphic Designers
by adam carr

AROUND
Asier Mendizábal and the Enigma of Ideology
by josé luis corazón ardura

Only Politically-Oriented
Pop Art Painting?
by raimar stange

FOCUS
THE ENDLESS HOUSE
Mark Manders
by maria barnas

LAB
Written Associative Performances
a project by DINA DANISH
curated by post brothers

ANDROID®
Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut.
by riccardo previdi

LAB
Jamie Shovlin: Artist’s Pages
text by martin holman

SPOTLIGHT
Fantasy or fear? In Conversation with Caroline Achaintre
by gavin wade

Possibilities and Fantasies of the
Forgotten and Fetish Object.
In Conversation with Anna Franceschini
by ilaria gianni

THE EXHIBITION ROOM
a project by
INVERNOMUTO

FASHION CURATING
In Conversation with VALERIE STEELE
by dobrila denegri

BOOKS
Avital Geva’s Conceptual
Experiment with Books and Space
by ory dessau

AGENDA
edited by sara feola

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A Statue Has Remembered Me. Yorgos Sapountzis. Sternberg Press.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Videos and Picnic by Yorgos Sapountzis in the Ursula Blickle Foundation, May 20-July 8, 2012 and The Gadfly Festival at Westfälischer Kunstverein June 16-September 2, 2012.

With texts by Rosalyn Deutsche, Chris Kraus, Veit Loers and Katja Schroeder as well as an interview by Willem de Rooij with Yorgos Sapountzis.

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Gastronomica #12:2

Combining a keen appreciation for the pleasures and aesthetics of food with the latest in food studies, Gastronomica is a vital forum for ideas, discussion, and thoughtful reflection on the history, literature, representation, and cultural impact of food. In each issue you’ll find provocative analyses, including the latest interdisciplinary research from noted scholars that considers the relationship between food and culture throughout the world. From news to techniques, design to reviews, poetry to prose, Gastronomica presents a mix of articles and features by culinary professionals, historians, architects, photographers, poets, artists, and others, and you can expect sumptuous images depicting the richness and vibrancy of food and our joy in preparing and consuming it.

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Paradiso Reisemagazin #1 – Italien

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For artists only. Francisca Würz.

Edited by the artist Francisca Würz, the booklet For Artists Only contains a series of found photographs as well as a transcription of a popular 1971 radio broadcast about Bussana Vecchia, the so called Village of International Artists. More than a representation of an artist community, the booklet represents time: a time when the myth and nostalgia of a certain artistic lifestyle began to gain popularity.

Written by Karl Erik Johansson.
Translation & transcription from a radio broadcast by Elizabeth Wilmot. 1971.
Photographs by H.W. 1974.
Edited by Francissca Würz. 2012.
Limited edition of 80 copies.

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Cybermohalla Hub. Sternberg Press.

Contributions by Can Altay, Cybermohalla Ensemble, Rana Dasgupta, Hu Fang, Naeem Mohaiemen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jacques Rancière, Raqs Media Collective, Superflex, et al.

The Cybermohalla project takes on the meaning of the Hindi word mohalla (neighborhood) in its sense of alleys and corners, relatedness and concreteness, as a means for talking about one’s “place” in the city. Initiated by the Delhi-based research institute Sarai/CSDS and Ankur, Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Müller developed a project that involves approximately seventy young practitioners, the Cybermohalla Ensemble, who engage with their urban contexts through various media. Cybermohalla Hub, a hybrid of studio, school, archive, community center, library, and gallery is a structure that moves between Delhi and diverse art contexts including Manifesta 7 and, most recently, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.

The Cybermohalla experiment has been engaged in rethinking urban life, and reimagining and reanimating the infrastructure of cultural and intellectual life in contemporary cities. The book not only documents the architecture of the project, which functions as an attempt to “build knowledge,” but also publishes insights that have emerged from the project as a whole.

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Cine Qua Non #5

Cine Qua Non is an arts magazine of the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) built up by movements in written form that freely crisscross reflections, reviews or essays; movements that relate music to visual arts, dance to theatre, cinema to literature. This publication intends to submit its readers to a unique editorial approach that gathers artists, researchers and teaching staff, Portuguese or foreign, proposing texts of different nature about diverse artistic expressions. Cine Qua Non is, since its first printed issue, an entirely bilingual publication (Portuguese/English) that is presented in both versions: an online edition and a printed one.

INDEX

|| EDITORIAL | WHAT (PRE)OCCUPIES US?
Madalena Manzoni Palmeirim

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From Abroad

|| LECTURE
Wolfgang Tillmans

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Essays

|| MANIFESTO FORM: THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSAGE
Julian Hanna

|| RE-SCRIPTING THE STAGE: PERFORMANCE AND INTERACTIVITY
Johannes Birringer

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Inside

|| THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS: ON MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
José Duarte

|| SELF-PORTRAIT, AN AUTOMATIC PORTRAIT
Ana Mendes

|| I’M FROM MOURARIA
Catarina Vasconcelos e Catarina Laranjeiro

|| FROM PERSONAL TO TRANSMITTABLE
Simão Palmeirim Costa

QUID JURIS
|| CULTURE AND THE CRISIS
Pedro Ramos Almeida

SPOILER
|| A WORLD THAT DOESN’T WATCH ITSELF
Jorge Vaz Nande

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