Issue 1/2004
Diadochic Culture?
»Diadochic culture? - In the now independent parts of the former power blocs, a new cultural self-awareness has crystallised, largely unnoticed by the art industry, which is too busy rushing from one art fair to another. This is particularly the case in geographical spheres that were long under the influence of the former Soviet Union. Here, a new kind of cultural sensibility has developed that can no longer be adequately described within the categories of the post-colonial. The first issue of 2004 brings together images and voices from a post-communist, neo-diadochic culture.« This is the way we tried last autumn to outline the 2004 spring issue. A particular focus was to be the variety and heterogeneity of the art scenes in post-communist countries, without our becoming completely the victims of our own projections. For to assume that ... » read more
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Decipherments
In »The Last Window Giraffe«, Péter Zilahy spells the world once more from the top – in all sorts of media
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Translocal friendship networks
Art and music production in post-communist times
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Digital Russia
A large Moscow exhibition situated between electronic art and the international entertainment industry
Herwig G. Höller
The LEGO Principle
On the exhibition of works by MESO/Involving Systems at the O.K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz
Andrea Winklbauer
Virtual Campfires
In Berlin, transmediale04 examined the relevance of the utopian concept to the present day
Kito Nedo
Video-Game Art
Changing Software Meanings
Alessandro Ludovico
Lost & Found (III)
Belgrade, 1967: Early innovative music clips are made at the zenith of the beat and psychedelic wave
Christian Höller
Diadochic Culture?
Post-Communist Translations
Synonyms, Homonyms and Palindromes
Suzana Milevska
Body Politics – Post-Communist Aesthetics of the Political
An interview with the Bulgarian cultural theorist Boyan Manchev
Roland Schenke
Putin´s Ark
Konstantin Akinsha
The Place of Forgetting
The Prague Museum of Communism
Boris Buden
Revolution im asynchronen Raum
Vít Havránek, Jano Mancuska
Instable Conditions
Traces of past and present-day body regimes in two works by artists from Yerevan
Hedwig Saxenhuber
An Afternoon in the Village of Ashnak
The rediscovery of an unknown masterpiece of conceptual cinema from the former Soviet Union: Hamlet Hovsepian’s »Washing Hair, Biting Nails, Yawning«
Georg Schöllhammer
Cosmonauts in Distance Montage
The artworld rediscovers the films of the Armenian director Artavazd Peleshian in exhibitions and screenings
Petra Löffler
Embedded Pyongyang
American artist Sean Snyder’s reconaissance of North Korea
Krystian Woznicki
»Don’t be Such a Fetish-East!«:
Against the notion of »a new post-socialist culture«
Nebojsa Jovanovic
»Faster than History«
Post-Sovietisms in north-eastern Europe
Herwig G. Höller
Mourning Solidarity
On Charity Scribner's »Requiem for Communism«
Martin Conrads
You Are Not Alone
»Unknown Sister, Unknown Brother« - an exhibition in Dresden looked for new strategies for dealing with the artistic legacy of the former East Germany
Annette Weisser
A Complicated Piece of Cloth
The exhibition »Veil« at Modern Art Oxford
Christian Kravagna
Polymorphic Promises
On the exhibitions »Mothers of Invention«, »That bodies speak has been known for a long time…*«, and »Body Display« in Vienna
Christa Benzer, Nicola Hirner
Artscribe
3. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst
Gregor Jansen
»Ready to Shoot - Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum/videogalerie schum«
Christiane Fricke
»Architekturen des Sehens«
Julie Ryan
Emily Jacir: »belongings«
Monika Vykoukal
»Die Regierung«
Catrin Lorch
Philippe Parreno: »Fade Away«
Michael Hauffen
Bettina Pousttchi: »Screen Settings«
Petra Löffler
»Gastarbajteri - 40 Jahre Arbeitsmigration«
Christian Höller
»X-Screen - Filmische Installationen und Aktionen der 60er und 70er Jahre«
Dietmar Schwärzler
Mladen Stilinovic: Retrospective in the Flat
Georg Schöllhammer
»Wege zur Unsterblichkeit? - Dialog mit Religion, Naturwissenschaft, Spiritualität«
Annette Wunschel
Art & Language
Stefan Römer
Books
Michel Wieviorka:
Kulturelle Differenzen und kollektive Identitäten
Susanne Karr
Ursula Biemann (Hg.):
Stuff it. The Video Essay in the Digital Age
Daniel Pies
Hito Steyerl, Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodriguez (Hg.):
Spricht die Subalterne Deutsch? Migration und postkoloniale Kritik
Jo Schmeiser
Dierk Baecker (Hg.):
Kapitalismus als Religion
Katherina Zakravsky
Judith Butler:
Kritik der ethischen Gewalt
Lea Susemichel
Alexandar Battista Ilic, Diana Nenadic (Hg.):
Tomislav Gotovac
Georg Schöllhammer