Issue 3/2017
The Empire Strikes Back?
It is already a quarter of a century since the Soviet Union formally ceased to exist. The after-effects generated by the downfall of this erstwhile empire still however appear in a whole host of different forms to this day. Many current problems, ranging from political difficulties to social and economic tensions in the former Soviet republics, can only be understood against the backdrop of this historical process whose repercussions are still felt today. Old elites have been replaced by their new counterparts. Long-simmering conflicts have broken out again in earnest, with no clear end in sight. New geopolitical fault-lines and spheres of influence now criss-cross the region of the former Soviet bloc region. As pan-European integration becomes an increasingly remote prospect, a newly invigorated Russia emerges with growing forcefulness. I... » read more
Net section
Die Frauen und Männer mit der Kamera
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Liebe als soziale Praxis
Yvonne Volkart
Monumente des Postrealen
Christa Benzer
Gegenzeit
Christian Höller
Was will die Reisepassdrohne von mir?
Krystian Woznicki
The Empire Strikes Back?
Cracks in the Empire
Monuments of Soviet Modernity—with reference to the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNKh) and examples from Armenia’s architectural history
Wolfgang Kil, Georg Schöllhammer
Jerewan – Neuinterpretation und Verfall
Ruben Arevshatyan
The Return of the Repressed Empire
The Case of Uzbekistan
Boris Chukhovich
Defragmenting Omnipresence
The Struggle for Preservation of Soviet Standard Estates
Dimitrij Zadorin
Discrimination against the Soviet Modernist Built Legacy in Kharkiv
Jewhenija Hubkina
A Ghost Boulevard is Haunting the City
Stefan Rusu
Der sowjetische Modernismus und Georgien
Gaga Kiknadze
Good Universalism
A View From/Of Belarus
Olga Shparaga
Artscribe
Katharina Sieverding. Kunst und Kapital. Werke 1967–2017
Gislind Nabakowski
Andreas Fogarasi. Plan/Plán
Yuki Higashino
Dejima. Konzepte von Ein- und Ausschluss
Lisa Britzger
Johannes Porsch. Tropology – Ein Ausstellungsrundgang mit Wendungen
Christian Egger
Nie jestem juz psem (Ich bin kein Hund mehr)
Herwig G. Höller
Chinafrika. under construction
Agnieszka Roguski
Cristina Lucas. Global Edges
Lisa Moravec
Juan Acha. Despertar revolucionario
Jens Kastner
Marcel Odenbach. Beweis zu nichts
Bettina Brunner
Peter Dressler – Wiener Gold und Sonderfahrt
Sabine Weier
Books
Sabeth Buchmann/Ilse Lafer/Constanze Ruhm (Hg.):
Putting Rehearsals to the Test Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics
Yuki Higashino
Helmut Draxler:
Abdrift des Wollens. Eine Theorie der Vermittlung
Pascal Jurt
James Voorhies:
Beyond Objecthood. The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968
Naoko Kaltschmidt
Hélène Cixous:
Aus Montaignes Koffer und Osnabrück
Gislind Nabakowski