Issue 3/2007
Learning from ...
Questions of aesthetic and transdisciplinary education pervade the artistic field in many guises: What forms of knowledge are important for contemporary art? How do contemporary works form their audience? What pedagogical models are utilised to this purpose? What learning processes are set in motion by locally situated practices, at a global level as well? The summer issue is devoted to the third leitmotif of documenta 12 – “What is to be done?” – and (for the time being) concludes a critical examination that was started three issues ago. Whereas the initial focus was on questions regarding the specific topographies and aesthetic strategies that are emerging during the current ubiquitous reversions to the history of modernity, attention is now directed towards the particular processes of education that are also being triggered. In this r... » read more
Net section
Where Will I Go?
Basel [plug.in] exhibition space shows »New Directions from China – Media Art from China«
Yvonne Volkart
net.worked_CURATING
Curating Internet-based art forms in the medium of the Internet has expanded to become a multi-layered communication process between users from a broad range of different backgrounds
Franz Thalmair
Conceptual viruses
Joseph Beuys’ »7000 oaks« in a synthetic world
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
A hard-working and honourable showman
The Kempelen reconstruction in Budapest’s Kunsthalle
Villö Huszai
Convulsive Flickering
The exhibition »MindFrames« at the Karlsruhe ZKM presents pioneers of media art who once worked in the Department of Media Study in Buffalo
Rainer Bellenbaum
Dark Islands in the Net
Robert Young Pelton, the Black Flag Café and a Travel Guide for the High-Risk Society
Krystian Woznicki
Futures & Pasts
The Brussels label Les disques du crépuscule established style policy benchmarks in the 1980s
Christian Höller
Learning from ...
The Abandonment of Democracy
Interview with Jacques Rancière
Christian Höller
Non-associated initiatives
Observations on the »summit« of alternative educational culture
Irit Rogoff
Kamen Stoyanov
»Roma Open Air Museum«
Walter Seidl
Networking competence
On the role of curators and schools of curating in the »left-wing politicization of contemporary art«
Beti Zerovc
Who brings the sun into the palace?
Juliano Mer-Khamis’ »Freedom Theatre« in the Jenin refugee camp
Dietrich Heissenbüttel
Doing something crazy and special
On »Life? Or Theatre?« , a retrospective of works by German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon
Susanne Neuburger
»What can be wholly destroyed can wholly survive«[1]
The audio route in Gusen by christoph mayer chm.
Hedwig Saxenhuber
The Impossible War Memorial
A contribution to the exhibition »Memorial to the Iraq War«
Tony Chakar
The myth of 1977
On documentation of the Italian autonomist and anti-authoritarian “movement of ’77”
Benjamin Paul
Cinema on the run
The films of the Zanzibar Group or the dandies of May ’68
Nicolas Siepen
Between realities
On Peter Watkins’ semi-documentary films and their re-emergence in contemporary artistic production
Christa Benzer
The dead speaking in the third person
Philip Scheffner’s digital documentary audio film »The Halfmoon Files – A Ghost Story«
Jochen Becker
Artscribe
»Breaking Step - Displacement, Compassion and Humour in Recent Art from Britain«
Suzana Milevska
»History Will Repeat Itself.
Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance.«
Angelika Richter
Gerard Byrne
Bert Rebhandl
____ fabrics interseason (Wally Salner & Johannes Schweiger)
»DÖBLING REFORM: panier und biobourgeoisie«
Christian Egger
William Pope.L
»Snow, Spraypaint, Hair, Sperm & Baloney«
Jörn Ebner
Peggy Meinfelder
»Revision of Production«
Michael Hauffen
Wesley Willis/Ingo Giezendanner
WW vs. GRRR
Tan Wälchli
Anna Oppermann
»Revisionen der Ensemblekunst«
Yvonne P. Doderer
Ryan Gander
»Short cut through the trees«
Kathi Hofer
Moira Zoitl and Ricarda Denzer
Christiane Erharter
Books
Oliver Grau (Hg.):
MediaArtHistories
Eric Kluitenberg
John Holloway/Edward P. Thompson:
Blauer Montag.
Jens Kastner
William Hazlitt:
Vom Vergnügen zu hassen.
Thomas Raab