Issue 3/2005
South America: The New Hope?
In contrast with the worldwide trend towards neo-liberal consolidation, political situations in Latin America seem to be in a state of rapid change. The emancipatory movements on this continent have become a focus of projected hopes from many different quarters. This does not always correspond with local realities; the minority progress that is actually achieved does not always live up to these worldwide expectations. This springerin issue looks at the cultural and artistic promises linked with this political reorientation. In the discussion between the artists Lívia Flores, Lúcia Koch and Ricardo Basbaum, there is explicit debate on the potential for action and resistance of Brazilian contemporary art in the era of Lula da Silva. A special feature is devoted to the current works of Ricardo Basbaum, and examines in particular their impli... » read more
Net section
Net art.br
On the Brazilian net art scene
Ricardo Rosas
Hoping for the Truth
The conference »Copyfight« and the state of the copyright debate
Mariann Unterluggauer
Noise on the Margins
The work of the Uruguayan Net artist Brian Mackern
Alessandro Ludovico
In the Realm of Hallucinations
Cartographies of the possible or: Politics of sonic perceptive distortion
Krystian Woznicki
Favela Funkeiros
The new international interest in the »baile funk« phenomenon
Petra Erdmann
Lost & Found (IX)
Brazil experienced its own small-scale post-punk boom in the 1980s, documented on current re-releases
Christian Höller
South America: The New Hope?
The Potential Personality
Trans-subjectivity in the society of control
Brian Holmes
Action and Resistance in the Global Era
A conversation with three artists about the Brazilian situation.
Miguel von Hafe Pérez
Brazil in the MoMA Collection
An analysis of the insertion of Brazilian art in an international art institution
Ana Letícia Fialho
Avenida Glauber Rocha
New discoveries and rediscoveries in the work of the Brazilian filmmaker
Peter Friedl
Heroes without Character
The rediscovery of Brazilian cinema
Bert Rebhandl
The Sum of Possible Influence
South American cities between nation-building and globalisation
Krystian Woznicki
Brasilia, 2000
Print Version only
Sean Snyder
Exploring the World from the Periphery
On selected works by Chilean video artist Edgar Endress
Dietrich Heissenbüttel
Reversing the Process of Exclusion
Radical social transformation in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez
Dario Azzellini
Plant Politics
Lois & Franziska Weinberger’s garden and vegetation concept art in a first big retrospective
Georg Schöllhammer
Artscribe
Dockwatchers
Berenika Partum
History Of Disappearance
Jörn Ebner
Andreas Fogarasi – »Westen (aka Osten)«
Eva Kernbauer
»Arbeit«
Petra Löffler
»Kollektive Kreativität«
Thomas Edlinger
»Police«
Christa Benzer
»Wisdom of Nature: Eight Visions From Austria«
Christian Höller
»Gleichzeitig in Afrika«
Heike Ander
»ongoing: feminism & activism«
Andrea Domesle
7. Sharjah Biennale 2005 – »Belonging«
Eva Egermann
Charlotte Posenenske
Susanne Neuburger
»InSite_05«
Yvonne P. Doderer
Hans Scheirl – »hans im auto: inneneier begleitprogramm«
Tanja Widmann
Books
YEAN (Hg.):
TirolCITY
Anette Baldauf
Susanne Lummerding:
agency@?
Christa Benzer
Andreas Fanizadeh, Eva-Christina Meier (Hg.):
Chile International. Kunst, Existenz, Multitude
Jens Kastner
David B.:
Babel
Martin Reiterer
David B.:
Epileptic
Martin Reiterer
Simon Reynolds:
Rip It Up and Start Again
Pat Blashill