Issue 2/2016
Parallax Views
It is a good 25 years since the categories “West” and “East” underwent a decisive shift. It has taken almost as long to overcome the restrictive and patronising terminological straitjacket of so-called “Eastern Art” or, worse still, “Art from the former Eastern Bloc”. The difficulties involved in the ongoing search for fitting terms to describe artistic production from this region, even almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Iron Curtain, speaks volumes. After all, the geographical circumlocution “Art from Eastern Europe” is nothing more than a work-around that tends to conceal the deeper problematic issue – namely securing a definitive place for this work in the contemporary art canon – rather than actually contributing to shedding light on the matter. In cooperation with Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE ... » read more
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Unmenschliches Rauschen
Yvonne Volkart
Decentring the Centre: New Directions in Sound
Rahma Khazam
Maschinenliteratur
Alessandro Ludovico
Denken ohne Boden
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Das digitale Subjekt
Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova
Parallax Views
„East“ as Geopolitical Category
Nataša Ilić and Peter Osborne in Conversation
Paul Neagu – Performances
Alina Serban
The Emergence of „Eastern Europe“
Cosmin Costinaş and Ekaterina Degot in Conversation
Beyond Ideology
Keti Chukhrov in conversation with Anthony Yung
Eastern European … Solidarity!
Rasha Salti in conversation with Branislav Dimitrijević
Opening Up History
Marta Dziewańska in conversation with Boris Buden
Unser Konzept war es zu polarisieren
Terezie Nekvindová, Vjera Borozan
Artscribe
Forum Expanded – Traversing the Phantasm
Christian Höller
Secret Surface – Wo Sinn entsteht
Michael Hauffen
Everything Must Go. Art and the Market
Christina Töpfer
Claus Richter – The Frankfurt Songbuch
Gislind Nabakowski
Melanie Gilligan – The Common Sense Substitution
Sabine Weier
Concerning Concrete Poetry
Gabriele Hoffmann
Anna Witt – Durch Wände gehen
Angelika Bartl, Renate Wöhrer
Rose English – A Premonition of the Act
Jörn Ebner
Constanze Ruhm – Re: Rehearsals (No Such Thing As Repetition)
Dietmar Schwärzler
Julia Haller – Smile from the Streets You Hold
Yuki Higashino
Books
Jon Savage:
1966. The Year The Decade Exploded
Klaus Walter
Murray Bookchin:
Die nächste Revolution. Libertärer Kommunalismus und die Zukunft der Linken
Jens Kastner
Jo Schmeiser (Hg.):
Conzepte – Neue Fassungen politischen Denkens
Ruth Sonderegger
Klaus Ronneberger:
Peripherie und Ungleichzeitigkeit
Jochen Becker
Tilman Baumgärtel:
Schleifen. Zur Geschichte und Ästhetik des Loops
Thomas Edlinger