Issue 3/2018
The Institute of "Art"
The art business has long split into many parallel strands, each with its own institutions, markets and illusions. Patterns of practice spanning a huge spectrum, from amusement for the super-rich to survival techniques for the super-precaritised, have crept into these undertakings. There is still a pretence that a single unifying - and in particular institutional - basis exists for all these spheres. Nowadays however, not even formerly hegemonic large-scale events like documenta or the biennials in Venice, São Paulo, Istanbul or New York can still create coherent narratives with a lasting impact. In the light of this, what holds the "institution" of contemporary art together? Where can lines of connection be identified, cutting across social or scene-specific coordinates as well as regional or international geographic zones? Does this unif... » read more
Net section
Digitale Herzensbildung
Christa Benzer
Kopie, Glitch, Fehler
Justin Hoffmann
Was die Bildschirme zum Leuchten bringt
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Re & Ra, Rosa & Erasure
Klaus Walter
The Deep Valley of Cyber Surveillance
Interview with Yasha Levine about the Military Origins of the Internet
Olivier Jutel
The Institute of "Art"
Institutes of Performativity
Towards an Institutional Ethics
Keti Chukhrov
Mokshamudra Progression
Adrian Piper
Private foundations, Innovating Conformity
Pierre Bal-Blanc
“You Can’t Step into the Same River Twice” – Sure Enough, You Can!
Transformation from a (Post-)Socialist Institution of Art into an Illiberal-Nationalist, Autocratic One
Edit András
49 Streifen/90 Streifen
Ovidiu Anton
“I Know You Can’t Levitate”
Contemporary Art in Turkey as a Weak Diversion of Interest and a Powerful Tarrying
Süreyyya Evren
Good at Shooting, Bad at Painting
Khaled Jarrar
Art Won't Save Us
Anna Khachiyan
Georg Kargl 1955–2018
Georg Schöllhammer
Artscribe
Martha Rosler/Hito Steyerl – War Games
Christoph Chwatal
Mika Rottenberg
Sabine Mostegl
Horáková + Maurer – TPX-Index
Veronika Rudorfer
Burak Delier – Barmag: A Magazine That Takes Itself for a Bar
Süreyyya Evren
GROENTOPIA
Sylvia Szely
Workshops of Revolution
Ewelina Jarosz
Portable Landscapes
Rahma Khazam
Ydessa Hendeles – Death To Pigs
Ada Karlbauer
Performative Screenings #53: Julia Grosse und Yvette Mutumba Contemporary And Center of Unfinished Business
Christian Egger
Bouchra Khalili
Christian Höller
Books
Lyn Blumenthal/Kate Horsfield:
Craig Owens: Portrait of a Young Critic
Naoko Kaltschmidt
Krystian Woznicki:
Fugitive Belonging
Peter Kunitzky
Christian Dewald/Petra Löffler/Marc Ries (Hg.):
Kino Arbeit Liebe: Hommage an Elisabeth Büttner
Alexandra Seibel
Mladen Savic:
Feuer am Dach: Essays, Reflexionen, Polemiken
Thomas Raab