Issue 4/2013
Art of Indebtedness
Since the financial and debt crisis pushed the global economic system to the verge of destruction, heightened levels of alarmism have also become noticeable in the culture business. Over the last few years, a growing number of symptoms suggest that radical economic uncertainty is also increasingly impacting on the production, distribution and reception of art. Ongoing developments are noted and responded to with varying degrees of unease, although one can quite legitimately ask what has actually changed since the start of the crisis in 2008. Trading continues on the stock exchanges just as it did before; the principal beneficiaries of the system have on the whole grown richer over the last five years and the quest to identify those responsible seems to have become bogged down, with a tendency to blame national scapegoats rather than conduct... » read more
Net section
Copy Cats
On Oliver Laric’s artistic practice
Franz Thalmair
»With the power of thought«
Brain – computer – interfaces
Sandra Groll
Medium as “Missive”
On Akram Zaatari’s Video Letter to a Refusing Pilot (2013)
Christian Höller
Mining the Biennale
A Story About Art and Globalisation in Benin
Cédric Vincent
Napsterizing the Teamsters
On emerging forms of mutual aid and collective bargaining
Trebor Scholz
Art of Indebtedness
History Zero
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Art and debt
The relationship between current practices and the ongoing crisis
Pascal Jurt und Beat Weber
Artists as Commoners in the Years of Indebtedness
Daphne Dragona
Absence as Argument
On the Reasoning Applied in David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5000 Years
Felix Klopotek
Hyperarticulation and crisis
Interview with artist Mathias Poledna on his new work Imitation of Life (2013)
Alexandra Seibel
Affect & Exchange
Melanie Gilligan
Gezi Park Practice
Horizontal Struggle
Ali Akay
Gezi Park (2013)
Balca Ergener
Anything goes – everything stays
A talk with Barbara Kapusta and Stephan Lugbauer, who ran the off-space Saprophyt in Vienna
Axel Stockburger
Reise durch Athen (2007-2008)
Alexandros Georgiou
Artscribe
About The House/Silence Turned Into Objects
Susanne Neuburger
Present Tense
Su-Ran Sichling
Bonjour tristesse, désir, ennui, appétit, plaisir
Monika Vykoukal
Ricardo Basbaum
Pedro de Llano
DIE DAMEN
Silvia Eiblmayr
W sercu kraju (Im Herzen des Landes)
Herwig G. Höller
The Content of Form
Christian Höller
Thomas Locher
Yuki Higashino
Mareike Bernien/Kerstin Schroedinger
Kerstin Stakemeier
Books
Diana Pinto :
Israel ist umgezogen
Thomas Edlinger
Rahel Puffert :
Die Kunst und ihre Folgen
Nanna Lüth
Jean-Luc Nancy :
Äquivalenz der Katastrophen
Gislind Nabakowski
Annette Emde, Radek Krolczyk (Hg.) :
Ästhetik ohne Widerstand
Thomas Raab
Joanna Warsza (Hg.) :
Ministry of Highways
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider