Issue 1/2006
Collective Amnesias
In the overfilled digital and analogue archives of the present day, access to materials related to artistic or political movements seems easier than ever. The commemoration culture, including entire “commemorative years”, has become a powerful sector of the culture industry. But strange exclusions and misrepresentations, suppressions and distortions occur in the omnipresent work this culture does on and with history. Even though one could not say that this is accompanied by a deliberate loss of memory, the effects of many kinds of historical reappraisal bear a dangerously close resemblance to one. The present issue looks for themes and figures of collective amnesias and investigates their backgrounds. First of all there are the many links between individual and collective histories which contemporary art salvages from memory gaps and tim... » read more
Net section
Property and Theft in the Infosphere
On the conference »World-Information City«
Christa Benzer
Memory Reloaded
The treatment of history in video games as exemplified in a work by Paolo Molleindustria
Alessandro Ludovico
Programmers, Pirates, Prosumers and Pornographers
Innovative video culture from Berlin
Zeljko Blaçe
Karmakar / Sequence Shot / Machine Music
A new documentary about the electronic music scene
Rainer Bellenbaum
Lost & Found (X)
Cinematic finds from and about the sixties – a foray through the Viennale 2005
Christian Höller
Read Me 100 – Temporary Software Art Factory
The 4th Festival for Software Art and Cultures took place in early November
Yvonne Volkart
Collective Amnesias
Black Holes, White Patches
Three exhibitions in the fight against today’s collective amnesias
Yvonne Volkart
Marx’s Doctrine Is All-Powerful Because It Is True
An interview with the Russian artist Dmitri Gutov about the work and influence of the philosopher Michail Lifschitz
David Riff
»Conférence de Berlin 1884/85«
Print Version only
Dierk Schmidt
Collective Amnesia as a Project
Notes on the 9th Istanbul Biennial
Süreyyya Evren
A Leap Forward by the Istanbul Biennial
But is »Pera« really on the other side?
Sibel Yardimci
Encountering the Local
»Mind the Steps«, - a work by Karl-Heinz Klopf at the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, 2005
Pelin Tan
Visible Invisible Force
An interview with Tariq Ali about »Body Counts«, media politics, forms of protest and amnesias in the course of the Iraq war
Christian Höller
when an interpreter could not be found
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VISIBLE Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen
The Presence of the Absent
Recent wars and the commemorative process in recent documentary film
Michael Löbenstein
Interior, Photo, Film, Text
The film »Interior Memories« by Arye Wachsmuth traces the historical vestiges of middle-class Jewish apartments before 1938
Marc Ries
From Haight Ashbury to Silicon Valley
The brief »Summer of Love« and its unexpected long-term consequences
Klaus Walter
Artscribe
BitterWeber – »LIVE LIKE THIS!«
Jochen Becker
»Projekt Migration«
Minu Haschemi Yekani
Esra Ersen - »Arbeiten | Works 1998-2005«
Walter Seidl
Susan Hiller – »J.Street Project«
Jörn Ebner
Heike Ander, Michaela Melián – »Föhrenwald«
Petra Löffler
»After the Act«
The (Re)presentation of Performance Art
Mara Traumane
»After the Act« - Symposium
The (Re)presentation of Performance Art
Katherina Zakravsky
»Arrêté – On the Neutralisation of Time«
Katharina Hofer
»Déjà-Vu«
The Moment of Belatedness in Contemporary Art
Tanja Widmann
»geheimsache:leben
Rosa Reitsamer
Christopher Williams, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij
Hedwig Saxenhuber
»Colonialism without Colonies?«
Relations between Tourism, Neo-Colonialism and Migration.
Annina Zimmermann
Books
Klub Zwei:
Things. Places. Years.
Doro Wiese
Tim Dinter, Yirmi Pinkus, Jan Feindt, Rutu Modan, Jens Harder, Guy Morad:
CARGO Comicreportagen Israel – Deutschland
Martin Reiterer
Elke aus dem Moore, Giorgio Ronna (Hg.):
Entre Pindorama
Jens Kastner
Angelika Fitz, Merle Kröger, Alexandra Schneider, Dorothee Wenner (Hg.):
Import Export. Cultural Transfer. India, Germany, Austria
Christa Benzer