The current economic situation and society’s low confidence in its institutions has suddenly demanded that artists become more imaginative in the way that they organise themselves.
If labels such as ‘alternative’, ‘non-profit’ and ‘artist-run’ dominated the self-organised art scene
that emerged in the late 1990s, the separatist position implied by the use of these terms has
been moderated during the intervening years. This new anthology of accounts from the front line includes contributions by artists, as well as their institutional counterparts, that provide a fascinating observation of the art world as matrix of interconnected positions where the balance of power and productivity constantly shifts.

Featuring Julie Ault,Maibritt Borgen, Céline Condorelli & Johan Frederik Hartle, Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen Ekaterina Degot, Charles Esche & David Riff, Barnaby Drabble, Jonas Ekeberg, Linus Elmes, Juan A Gaitán, Abdellah Karroum, Livia Pancu, Jan Verwoert, What, How & For Whom/WHW

Author: Stine Hebert & Anne Szefer Karlsen (Eds.)
Publisher: Open Editions
Language: English
Pages: 166
ISBN: 978-0-949004-17-8

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Die Kurzfassung des Inhaltes:

- Timbuktu muss warten: Vier Karawanen, ein Tuareg und ein Schlangenei: Warum das Pulverfass Mali zwingend hochgehen musste.
Von Michael Stührenberg

- Zwischen zwei Müttern: Als Baby gestohlen und verschenkt, als Jugendlicher mit der Wahrheit konfrontiert: Ein argentinisches Schicksal.
Von Erwin Koch

- Singapurs Putzfrauen: Unter prekären Bedingungen gehalten, machen die Maids der Expats deren Erfolg erst möglich.
Von Milena Moser

- Die Zellen meiner Schwester: Wenn der eigene Körper zum Feind wird. Ein Selbsterfahrungsbericht.
Von Christian Schmidt

- Walsaison: Auf den Färöer-Inseln ist die Grindwaljagd der Höhepunkt des Jahres. Tierschutz und Tradition prallen dabei aufeinander.
Von Linus Reichlin

-Bayrisches Requiem: Eine Autobahn führt bald durch das idyllische Isental – Melkstuhlromantik und Grossstadtleben wachsen zusammen.
Von Sabine Riedel

-Hügel 875: Die historische Reportage – von 1930
Von Oriana Fallaci

-Autorin im Gespräch: Milena Moser

-Das Objekt: Am Anfang dieser kleinen Reportage steht die Welt. Genauer gesagt: ein 450-jähriger, über zwei Meter hoher Globus, der im Landesmuseum Zürich zu sehen ist. Unser Autor Urs Mannhart, der gerne musealen Gegenständen nachspürt, landete auf den Spuren dieser Erdkugel hinter dicken Klostermauern – und stiess auf einen zähen, interkantonalen Streit und eine handwerklich bestrickende Schöpfungsgeschichte.
Von Urs Mannhart

-Keine Geschichte: Er gilt als der Billigste der Stadt. 25 Franken kostet ein Haarschnitt, dazu gibt es Tee und Stille. Die Angestellten, die gerade keine Kundschaft haben, sitzen in Lederstühlen und blicken zum Flachbildschirm, der seit neun Jahren an der Decke hängt und das neuste Gerät ist in Coiffeur Salehs Laden an der Josefstrasse 141, Kreis 5, Zürich, 30 Quadratmeter Syrien, 3000 Kilometer von Syrien entfernt.
Von Florian Leu

-Claudio Calabrese: Am 3. März haben wir es der Welt wieder einmal gezeigt. Das Schweizer Stimmvolk hat die Abzocker aus den Chefetagen der Grosskonzerne in die Schranken gewiesen, sie Mores gelehrt. Die direkte Demokratie zeigte ihre Zähne. Fast jeder und jede dritte Stimmberechtigte stimmte für die Initiative von Mundwassermann Minder. Ex-Botschafter Borer attestierte den Schweizern danach im «Spiegel» ein «sehr grosses Gerechtigkeitsgefühl». Wir sind das einzig wahrlich souveräne Volk der Welt. Müsste man meinen.
Von Claudio Calabrese

Editor: Daniel Puntas Bernet
Language: German
Pages: 144

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History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence and Freedom. Oxana Timofeeva. Jan van Eyck Academie.

“The question of the animal is the question of subjectivity and power. It provokes a particular tension between philosophical ontology, politics and psychoanalysis, and it is interesting to track how in the unstable field of the ‘human’ animality produces itself in a radical way. Gainsaying the fact that animality has traditionally been consigned to non-historical nature, animals have a history. But the logic of this history does not conform to the optimism of the humanistic discourse of progressive liberation and emancipation of animals that would finally secure their rights. Quite the contrary; it seems rather that from ancient totemism, through the sequence of exclusions and inclusions, to the present tragedy and farce that combine slaughterhouses, pet shops and global touristic safaris, animals have had a bad ‘career’. Historically, they failed. But this point of failure
is at the same time a point of departure – for the new history of metaphysics, for the new materialist politics of nature, for the new horizon of the human animal.”

Foreword by Slavoj Žižek
Designed by Luisa Lorenza Corna

Pages: 168
ISBN: 978-90-72076-72-4

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Dreaming the Mainstream. Mark von Schlegell. Merve Verlag Berlin.

»Wir, die wir im 21. Jahrhundert leben, sind nicht die ersten Generationen, die es mit einer veralteten Moderne zu tun haben. Unsere ehemals kritische Obsession für den Modernismus hat sich in ein Begehren verwandelt, denn als Moderne sehnen wir uns danach, modern zu sein, um das wiederherzustellen, was der Modernismus niemals war, aber doch endlich werden muss. Selbst darin sind wir noch Erben einer Tradition.« Mit dem Realometer (Berlin 2009) – als ästhetischem Instrument zur Erzeugung unwahrscheinlicher Wirklichkeiten – hat MVS eine amerikanische Fissur im Modernismus des 19. Jahrhunderts nachgezeichnet.

In Dreaming the Mainstream verfolgt er die Weiterentwicklung des Realometers im kulturellen Mainstream des 20. Jhs. Texte von Emily Dickinson, H.P. Lovecraft, Patricia Highsmith, Bob Dylan, Raymond Roussel und David Hume zeigen Anspruch und Scheitern des Mainstreams, seine fantastischen Versprechen einzulösen. Schlegells fiktiv-kritische Methode macht sich die Möglichkeitsformen zeitgenössischer Kunstkritik zu eigen, und erzeugt so einen futuristischen, textlichen Aktivismus, der die Schranken von Anstand, Plagiarismus, Genre, Gelehrsamkeit und Fantum weit hinter sich lässt.

Mark von Schlegell (*1967), schreibt Science-Fiction Romane (Mercury Station (2009) und Venusia (2005) bei Semiotext(e)), Essays und Kunstkritiken.
[www.sff.net/people/schlegell]

Mit Illustrationen von Manuel Gnam und Sergej Jensen.

Übersetzt von Petra Porsche.

IMD 345
2013
German / English
152 Seiten.
ISBN: 978-3-88396-283-2

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Spike #35: Materializing the Unthinkable / Das Undenkbare materialisieren.

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.

Artist’s Favourites
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 on Serial Protest Signs by Frank Chu

Galleries
The young Tokyo-based gallery Take Ninagawa discovers a new generation of artists comfortable with incongruity. By Nick Currie

Institution
Clémentine Deliss re-imagines the collection of the World Cultures Museum in Frankfurt through collaborations with artists. By Jan-Philipp Possmann

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. By Hans-Jürgen Hafner

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.

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 philosophical materialism. With an introduction by Armen Avanessian.

The body understood as an object
Swedish performer/choreographer Mårten Spångberg shares his thoughts on space, rhythm, expectation and embodiment with Filipa Ramos.

Acid in the Style of Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev
Digital composer Florian Hecker releases his documenta 13 sound work »Chimerization« on vinyl. By Christian Egger

Seduction
By Pablo Larios, Signe Ross, Anna Jermolaewa, Slavs and Tatars, Joanna Kamm

Reviews
»Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art«, Vienna; »Fotos«, Vienna; »Zeichen, gefangen im Wunder«, Vienna; Rudolf Polanszky, Vienna; Kiluanji Kia Henda, Innsbruck; Tue Greenfort, Berlin; Barbara Hammer, Berlin; Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Berlin; Lutz Bacher, Frankfurt; David Hockney, Cologne; Daan van Golden, Zurich; Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Antwerp; Clément Rodzielski, Paris; BANK, London; Matisse, New York; »Blues for Smoke«, Los Angeles; Guy de Cointet, Mexico

Spring / Frühling 2013
English / German
146 Pages

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Polysingularity Letters Vol. 3. Dmitry Paranyushkin.

This journal documents the most recent proceedings in the field of polysingularity. This term has originally been used mainly by Russian mathematicians to describe a special class of integral equations with multiple simultaneous solutions (Simonenko, 1965; Boikov, 2000; Gabdulkhaev, 2005).

Integral equations, to put it simply, are used to discover the processes (or causes, rules, and motives) that underlie a certain behavior that can be observed. They are the reverse of differential equations (dx/dt so much loved by Deleuze) that are used to discover how a certain already known process behaves over time. Polysingularity is the condition where several distinct sets of interacting processes may lead to the same behavior or phenomena. That’s why we refer to it as a study of co-isolated multiplicities that nevertheless retain their singularity. In other words, we don’t look at a phenomenon trying to understand how it works. Instead, we look at and study all the different contexts that are creating the conditions for the phenomenon to emerge. It’s not about why you love, but what else happens while you love. It ‘s not about finding the structure, it’s about complete and total engagement with each singularity not losing the multiplicity out of sight.

Such approach allows us to go one step beyond the contingency and equalized distancing that any speculative post-practice necessarily produces for the sake of its own safety. Instead, we jump into the abyss of the unknown and indefinable with the renewed fervor even if we know that at the very end we might fall down (although in this case we hope to bounce back sideways up). Hence the journal format, I guess. The barcode is just there to help computers catalogue, categorize, and distribute the knowledge, which in the end is going to alter their binary rationale in ways that are not yet predictable, but that are several.

English Language
Produced by Nodus Labs

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Cine Qua Non #6
English and Portuguese texts

INDEX
NOTAS EDITORIAIS / EDITORIAL NOTES
Ana Luísa Valdeira da Silva

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Por fora / From abroad

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT / UMA DECLARAÇÃO AUTOBIOGRÁFICA
John Cage

THINKING, YET AGAIN ABOUT JOHN CAGE / PENSAR MAIS UMA VEZ EM JOHN CAGE
Christian Wolff

FIVE STATEMENTS ON SILENCE BY JOHN CAGE / CINCO DECLARAÇÕES SOBRE O SILÊNCIO DE JOHN CAGE
James Pritchett

JOHN CAGE & MERCE CUNNINGHAM
David Vaughan

CAMERA-READY CIRCULAR VISUAL POEMS
Richard Kostelanetz

Ensaios / Essays

COLOR AND POWER: REFLECTIONS ON MATISSE IN A.S. BYATT’S “ART WORK” / (DA) COR E (DO) PODER: REFLEXÕES SOBRE MATISSE EM “OBRA DE ARTE” DE A.S.BYATT
Alecia Sudmeyer

OLHAR O TEATRO CONTEMPORÂNEO: UMA PERSPECTIVA NÃO TOTALITÁRIA / LOOKING AT CONTEMPORARY THEATRE: A NON-TOTALITARIAN PERSPECTIVE
Gustavo Vicente

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Por dentro / Inside of

A OFICINA DA CANÇÃO / THE WORKSHOP OF SONG
José Mário Branco

O TEMPO, FODA-SE, O TEMPO. ALGUMAS NOTAS SOLTAS SOBRE JÁ PASSARAM QUANTOS ANOS, PERGUNTOU ELE / THE TIME, THE FUCKING TIME. SOME NOTES ON HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN, HE ASKED
Rui Pina Coelho & Gonçalo Amorim

SPOILER
A VERGONHA DOS OUTROS / THE SHAME OF OTHERS
Jorge Vaz Nande

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Discipline is a Melbourne-based contemporary art journal. It has a focus on longer, research-based essays, interviews and artist pages.

While based and published in Melbourne, the writers and artists who have contributed to Discipline are both local and international. In presenting longer-form essays, the journal aims to ground a new body of sustained intellectual writing about contemporary art that does not merely fall back on the crutch of ʻpluralityʼ as a means for theorising art after postmodernism and globalisation.

Edited by Nicholas Croggon and Helen Hughes, Guest edited by Maria Fusco
Design by Annie Wu and Ziga Testen
Language: English
Pages: 176
Size: 30 x 23 cm

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A Circular 2 is edited by Pedro Cid Proença and features David Antin on Real Estate; a trio of short loops on song and sound by David Morris; Richard Hollis on Flags, Stars and Signs; Pedro Neves Marques on 1972; Dieter Roth’s Trophies Rotated by James Langdon; Patrick Coyle fake fancying, feigning, forging; an extract of Fugue by Roger Laporte; Wayne Daly and Sean Lynch in conversation; Adrian Piper’s To Art (Reg. Intrans. V.) and another instalment of Will Holder’s Middle of Nowhere.

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Texte Zur Kunst stands for controversial discussions and contributions by internationally leading writers on contemporary art and culture. Alongside ground-breaking essays the quarterly magazine, founded in Cologne in 1990 by Stefan Germer (†) and Isabelle Graw and published in Berlin since 2000, offers interviews, roundtable discussions and extensive reviews on art, film, music, market and fashion as well as on art history, theory and cultural politics. Since 2006 the comprehensive main section section, each time devoted to a different topic, and selected reviews are published in both German and English. With every issue internationally renowned artists support the magazine with exclusive artists’ editions.

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