Issue 4/2002


Far Eastern


In cartographies of contemporary art, the Asiatic region still figures as a barely explored territory. Despite some isolated attempts in the past few years - whether in solo exhibitions or in the form of nationally representative presentations -, the varied productions coming from the Far East are still strangely underrepresented in the Western culture industry. In addition to this, any mediatory endeavours tend as often as not to be coloured by »exoticisation« and »orientalisation« as soon as the gaze wanders from West to East. In order to call into question the inevitability of such »orientalisms« regarding the Asiatic region, the December issue of springerin engages with the »Far East« on a dialogic basis. Authors from Taiwan (Kuan-Hsing Chen), India (Nancy Adajania) or Kazakhstan (Julia Sorokina) have been invited to reflect on speci... » read more

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Get Garlic. Go Wireless
The project »Stre(a)ming the Fields,« presented at the conference »Urban Drift 2002« in Berlin
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider

Crossing the publicity border
The work of Croatian artist Andreja Kuluncic
Matthias Dusini

Japan, Japan ...
Austrian-Japanese relations in the field of electronica
Christian Höller

The Ball is Round
On the Up-and-Coming Media Arts Scene in Seoul
Gregor Jansen

In the Wild East
Western metaphors as the image capital of (post-) communist Global Cities in Asia
Krystian Woznicki

Do you allow script from ...?
The spread of so-called spy-ware and ad-ware
Reinhard Braun

 

Far Eastern


No Exchange
Asia and the »Culture of US Imperialism«
Kuan-Hsing Chen

An Ethics of Consumption
About the Problem of Cultural East-West-Meetings
Rey Chow

Rival Aesthetics of Solidarity
Indian Artists and their Public Sphere
Nancy Adajania

Bright Spots
Awakening in the Scene of Contemporary Art in Myanmar, the former Burma
Keiko Sei

Sea-seeds in the Steppe
About the Status of the Korean Minority in the Kazahstan
Julia Sorokina

Windows Sixty-Eight
This year\'s VIENNALE exhibition showed selected works of Yoko Ono
Christian Höller

Of Course - Holland
About the Artistic and Historical Relations of the Neatherlands to South-eastern Asia
Cãlin Dan

Thank you, Rasa Todosijevic!
A retrospective exhibition of Rasa Todosijevic, Museum of Contemporary Art - Belgrade
Branislav Dimitrijevic

The Future of an Illusion
»In Search of Balkania« - a large exhibition of southern European contemporary art in Graz
Georg Schöllhammer

A Different Way to Travel
On the Exhibition »Routes - Imaging Travel and Migration« at the Graz Kunstverein
Matthias Dusini

Clean-Shaven
»Voyage Argentina« - three short stories on film by the visual anthropologist Arnd Schneider
Christina Lammer

Playing and being Played
David Jourdan's Project »... and other bargain goods«
François Thiry

 

Artscribe


Stephan Dillemuth: Der deutsche Jüngling
Dierk Schmidt

Mexiko City: Eine Ausstellung über die Wechselkurse von Körpern und Werten
Jochen Becker

Cognition Control: From the Archive of Stephen Willats
Jörn Ebner

IV. Biennale: Reconstructions
Diana Popova

Richard Wright
Gerald Echterhoff

Michel Foucault und die Künste
Gislind Nabakowski

Gegenüber. Menschenbilder in der Gegenwartsfotografie
Ulrike Matzer

Philipp Lachenmann: Preview
Justin Hoffmann

8. Baltische Triennale für Gegenwartskunst: Centre of Attraction
Brigitte Huck

Designs für die Wirklichkeit
Raimar Stange

Martin Arnold: Deanimated
Martin Reiterer

Let´s twist again!
Christa Benzer

Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Niederösterreich: public art transeuropa
Sønke Gau

 

Books


Irene Nierhaus, Felicitas Konecny (Hg.):
räumen
Anette Baldauf

Dusan I. Bjelic, Obrad Savic (Hg.):
Balkan as Metaphor
Boris Buden

Nediko Solakov:
Romantische Landschaften mit fehlenden Teilen
Marina Grzinic

Robert Pfaller:
Die Illusion der anderen
Justin Hoffmann

Tom Holert, Mark Terkessidis / Goedart Palm, Florian Rötzer (Hg.) / Florian Rötzer:
Entsichert. Krieg als Massenkultur im 21. Jahrhundert. / MedienTerrorKrieg. Zum neuen Kriegsparadigma des 21. Jahrhunderts. / Virtuelle Welten - reale Gewalt
Daniel Pies

Ljubomir Bratic:
Landschaften der Tat.
Jo Schmeiser

 


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