Issue 3/2009


Escape Routes


The global capitalist system’s viability was an issue even before the current economic and financial crisis. At present new versions of the forecasts that perspicacious analysts have always made about longer term global economic cycles is becoming evident with slightly different nuances every day. One consideration here may well be the urge to foster a general rhetoric of crisis, which in many places is also being pressed into service as an alibi for rationalisation and adjustment processes immanent to the system. A further, equally worrying dimension of this situation is the enduring impact of the periodically recurring apocalyptic scenarios on art and culture, in a sense affecting them from within. It has long been asserted that there is simply no alternative to the global capitalist system and its manifestations in society, and all eff... » read more

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Nachbarschaften einrichten
Gudrun Ankele und Andreas Rumpfhuber

Alternative Reality Game
Paolo Cirio’s online Project »The Big Plot« creates new forms of collective storytelling
Alessandro Ludovico

Fatale Übersetzungsfehler
Annett Busch

Kontinuitäten und Brüche
Christa Benzer

Original Expanded
Yvonne Volkart

»Immer noch online, natürlich«
Franz Thalmair

Futures & Pasts
Christian Höller

 

Escape Routes


Decipher the future
Experimental work in mobile territories
Brian Holmes

Recessions
Claire Fontaine

Grenzen der Immunität
Krystian Woznicki

Smuggling
Avoiding prohibitions in economy, history and culture
Ana Peraica

Common Wealth
Jochen Becker

»El Flexible«
Tensions in the Caribbean Sea
Anna Schneider

Langsam vorwärts
Alice Creischer, Max Hinderer, Andreas Siekmann

It’s Time to Get Away
Christina Töpfer

Die Grenzen der »Sharity«
Beti Zerovc

Win-win in a New Open World
Vera Tollmann

Skerbisch sprach seine Sprache
Werner Fenz

 

Artscribe


»rebelle. kunst & feminisme 1969–2009«
Doro Wiese

»Parallel Chronologies - The Invisible History of Exhibitions«
Mari Laanemets

»Wach sind nur die Geister«
Jens Emil Sennewald

Deimantas Narkevicius
Bettina Brunner

»Green Platform – Kunst Ökologie Nachhaltigkeit«
Alessandro Ludovico

»Vor den Augen/Ad Oculos«
Herwig G. Höller

Florian Zeyfang
Marc Glöde

»Smell it! Freundschaft als Lebens-, Produktions- und Aktionsform«
Christian Egger

»Fifty Fifty. Kunst im Dialog mit den 50er Jahren«
Christa Benzer

»Nam June Paik. Music for all Senses«
Manuela Ammer

 

Books


Nicolas Bourriaud:
Radikant
Hans-Christian Dany

LiFE Saint-Nazaire/Museion Bozen (Hg.):
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
Christian Höller

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Florian Wüst (Hg.):
Wer sagt denn, dass Beton nicht brennt, hast Du’s probiert? Film im West-Berlin der 80er Jahre
Naoko Kaltschmidt

Peter van Dongen:
Rampokan
Martin Reiterer

Judith Butler:
Die Macht der Geschlechternormen
Sabine Rohlf

 


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