Issue 4/2008
My Religion
One of the most persistent myths of Western modernity asserts that lifeworlds are inexorably growing more secular. However, as a counterpoint to this movement, we find the frontline running between Islam and modernity. However, the counterpart to Islamic fundamentalism has long been Christological fundamentalism, which is flourishing in many places, and not just in the sometimes bitter defensive anti-evolutionary stance of creationists in the US »Bible belt« or indeed in evangelical mass movements in West Africa or South America. The increasingly pronounced Catholic anti-liberalism in South and Eastern Europe, the growing political influence of Orthodox Christianity in Russia and the boom of sects everywhere – there is more to the resurgence of religious fundamentalism than merely media hype. Reflections of this development, which become v... » read more
Net section
Fulfilled and unfulfilled hi/stories
Two Manifesta works explore the media-ecological and network effects of certain metals
Yvonne Volkart
Within the apparatus of control
On the enduring fascination of surveillance aesthetics
Roland Schöny
The Power of Mind over Mind
From Total to Internalized Surveillance
Amir Vodka
Keeping Vienna safe, sure thing!
The »Global Security Alliance« discussing the »new security culture« in Vienna
Christina Nemec
A Matter of Translation: »Webcra.sh/2800«
On the Transfer of Net Art to Real Space
Franz Thalmair
Futures & Pasts
On Tony Conrad’s art of »heterophonic duration«
Christian Höller
My Religion
Performing the Veil
On the links between concealment, Enlightenment fundamentalism and the imperative of visualization.
Sven Lütticken
The return of the repressed
The legend that the religious has been dealt with
Klaus Ronneberger
48 Heads from the Merkurov Museum
Visual contribution
Anna Artaker
Sacred Added Value
Religion and its Economy in the Russian Empire
Keti Chukhrov
On the Ruins of the Soviet Past
Some Thoughts on Religion, Nationalism and Artistic Avant-Gardes in Armenia
Vardan Azatyan
Beyond democracy
On the relationship between art, the state and the church in Poland
Piotr Piotrowski
Spectral Iconic Appearances
An interview with Tony Chakar on de-sanctified icons, the space of catastrophe and the aftermath of the Lebanese civil wars
Ellen Mara De Wachter
The prophet’s perspective
The »Order of the Persecuted« by Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Cédric Vincent
The Predicament of Religion
Twenty-First-Century Moral Politics in Latin America
Adriana Loyola
Against »a« Secularization
On Judith Butler’s Critique of a Totalizing Enlightenment
Tim Stüttgen
Artscribe
Vojin Bakić, Luca Frei, Marine Hugonnier & Sean Snyder
Jan Verwoert
Peter Fischli/David Weiss
»Questions & Flowers – a retrospective«
Annette Wehrmann
Geta Bratescu / Ana Lupas
Julia Wallnöfer
»Open Sky – Spaces beyond Their Practice« / »Wanted: A Building Site for a Mosque«
Carola Platzek
Jochen Becker »Liberation/Libération« (The Liberation of Tyrol, 1945)
Ivona Jelcic
Isabella Hollauf »Erholungsräume«
Carsten Probst
»The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection«
Christian Egger
»Planetary Consciousness«
Stefan Römer
Gülsün Karamustafa »Mobile Stages«
Nicola Hirner
Isa Rosenberger »Nový Most« / Miklós Erhardt »Temporary Settings«
Christa Benzer
»Un Coup de Dés.
Writing Turned Image. An Alphabet of Pensive Language«
Susanne Neuburger
Books
Thurston Moore / Byron Coley:
No Wave
Christian Höller
Paul D. Miller (Hg.):
Sound Unbound
Annett Busch
Annette Maechtel / Kathrin Peters (Hg.):
Die Stadt von Morgen
Michael Hauffen
Harvey Pekar / Heather Roberson. Illustriert von Ed Piskor:
Macedonia
Martin Reiterer
Harry Lehmann:
Die flüchtige Wahrheit der Kunst
Dietrich Heissenbüttel