Issue 2/2005
Friend Foe
»Friend« and »foe« as operative elements in art? Things are seldom called so clearly by their proper name, and concepts of »enemy« or »friend« seldom become explicit components in artistic procedures. Equally little attempt is made to communicate on what cultural alliances or unspoken animosities form the basis of artistic activity – at least, that activity which is primarily concerned with defending certain privileges. »Friend« and »foe« less as basic political principles, but rather as principles underlying artistic activity? These days, there is again much talk of the »state of emergency« as the new/old political reality that tries to define friendship and enmity in a continual endeavour to attain sovereignty, or indeed divides up the world again according to these principles. But what resonances does this have in the cultural field –... » read more
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[Re]tribute Beirut
Impressions of Proxy Readings
Nat Muller
Foreign Affairs
The video work »How to Fix the World « by Jacqueline Goss
Vera Tollmann
In the Beginning Was the Code
The theory of software art
Yvonne Volkart
Surfaces of the Digital
The media installations »cube« and »core« by Holger Mader, Alexander Stublic and Heike Wiermann
Patricia Drück
Lost & Found (VIII)
The Red Army Faction (RAF) has been a frequent and popular theme not only in art, but in music as well
Christian Höller
Friend Foe
Exciting and New
European identity or The artistic field and the production of a concept of »friend«
Jens Kastner
The Way You Sip Your Tea
Current perceptions of the Turkish art scene
Ariane Müller
This Day
Stills from a video-work by Akram Zaatari
Print Version only
Friendly Rogues
Dissociation and alliance in the field of theory
Nicolas Siepen
Ferdinand, Let’s Go to Sarajevo!
Metonymical symptoms of »Viennese« and/or »Balkans« in contemporary culture
Ana Peraica
Little Warsaw in and out of Budapest
The projects of the Hungarian artist duo Little Warsaw
Edit András
Calling the (Non)-Spirit by Its Right Name
The international exhibition project »Populism«
Jan Verwoert
Follow the Leader/Seguid vuestro chefe
Print Version only
Ines Doujak
»Question about Art or Non-Art Turned to Dust Anyway«
Ciphers of friend and foe in the exhibition »Making Things Public. Atmospheres of Democracy« at the ZKM in Karlsruhe
Gislind Nabakowski
Return of the Living Dead
Integrations of a project – the artists’ duo »bankleer«
Dietrich Heissenbüttel
Artscribe
Július Koller
Jirí Olic
»Bilder verkehren«
Doro Wiese
»Therefore Beautiful«
Melanie Ohnemus
Corinna Schnitt »Prima Leben« / In Person Corinna Schnitt
Christa Benzer
Katrina Daschner: »Dolores«
Yvonne P. Doderer
Hans Nevídal: »Projektionen zum 10. Mai«
Georg Schöllhammer
Neil Cummings/Marysia Lewandowska: »Enthusiasm«
Christian Kravagna
Phil Collins: »yeah.....you, baby you«
Jörn Ebner
51. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Barbara Wurm
Ines Doujak: »Dirty Old Women«
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Kirsten Pieroth
Thomas Edlinger
Gustav Metzger: Geschichte Geschichte
Nicola Hirner
»Non Stop«
Ronald Düker
Books
Virginia Santos-Rivero:
Unamuno Y El Sueno Colonial
Krystian Woznicki
Oliver P. Diehl/Wolfgang Muno (Hg.):
Venezuela unter Chávez – Aufbruch oder Niedergang?
Krystian Woznicki