Issue 3/2014
Arab Summer
It is three years since we published a special edition focusing on the dramatic changes and insurgencies in the Arab world. In those three years, the democracy movements that have attracted so much attention all over the world have in some instances consolidated their position but in other cases have suffered bitter setbacks. While in some places the despots who were previously in power have been ousted, the situation in Syria for example has completely escalated. Whereas the deeply entrenched autocratic structures on the Arabian peninsula have on the whole remained intact, elsewhere, for example in Tunisia, there is a clear move towards free parliamentary elections. At the same time however the spectre of a new authoritarianism is beginning to emerge right across the region. That is more than reason enough to ask what has actually follow... » read more
Net section
Let’s Make It Real
On the constitution of reality through digital media
Felix Stalder
Operational Reality
Art, technical media and the production of realities
Konrad Becker
Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen
Monika Mokre
“Infect and be infected”
The Belgian non-profit organisation Constant as a textbook example of open Net culture
Yvonne Volkart
Trust the Network, Not the Document
On the Ephemerality of Digital and Network Aesthetics
Christian Höller
Arab Summer
Arab Spring and »Islam«
Counter-revolution under changed auspices
Farid Hafez
Kunst im Kreuzfeuer
Charlotte Bank
Syrian Voices
Róza El-Hassan
Geographies of Fear
The impact of the Syrian conflict on the Lebanese cultural scene
Mona Sarkis
How Did We Survive? … Did We?
Portrait of a neglected sensibility
Fadi Toufiq
No Stone throwing in Glass Houses
Ripples of the Arab Uprisings in the Gulf
Nat Muller, Ferry Biedermann
A Labor Camp Is Now Known as a Village
Interim report on the artist and human rights initiative Gulf Labor
Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann
An Unhindered Body Inventing Its Own Gesture
Selma und Sofiane Ouissi
Wirkungen ohne Ursachen
Anneka Lenssen
Thinking Together - die Ukraine denken
GS
Das imaginäre Archiv: Eine Neudeutung des Maidan
Liza Babenko
Bilder der Revolution
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Eine etwas andere Kunstgeschichte
Lizaveta German
Artscribe
Berlin Biennale 8
Vera Tollmann
Ioana Nemeş
Simina Neagu
Zum Beispiel „Les Immatériaux“ / Smart New World
Gabriele Hoffmann
Lisa Oppenheim
Christian Höller
Burak Delier
Freedom has no script
Simona Nastac
Playgrounds. Reinventar la plaza
Sören Meschede
Arseniy Zhilyaev
M.I.R.: New Paths to the Objects
Rahma Khazam
Dani Gal
Daniel Horn
Meeting Points 7: Zehntausend Täuschungen und hunderttausend Tricks
Christa Benzer
I Can’t Control Myself
Christoph Braun
Books
Helmut Draxler/Tanja Widmann (Hg.):
Ein kritischer Modus? Die Form der Theorie und der Inhalt der Kunst
Thomas Edlinger
Andreas Fogarasi:
Vasarely Go Home
Yuki Higashino
Tristan Garcia:
Form and Object: A Treatise on Things
Rahma Khazam
Johannes Ebert/Günther Hasenkamp/Johannes Odenthal/Sarah Rifky/Stefan Winkler (Hg.):
Zeitgenössische Künstler aus der arabischen Welt
Gislind Nabakowski
Alexander Bühler/Uta Röttgers:
Emilio Tasso: Eine Abenteuerreportage
Martin Reiterer
Tom Tirabosco/Christian Perrissin:
Kongo: Joseph Conrads Reise ins Herz der Finsternis
Martin Reiterer