Issue 4/2020
Contemporary Artist Writing
When and how is all this going to stop? What will happen when this period, proclaimed to be the new normality, is no longer something out of the ordinary? And who will we be, having then possibly learnt to live—to coexist—a little better with the constant threat facing our existence and its precarious nature? Those are questions that can only be answered to a limited degree from our current perspective. Questions that have also led to a search for alternatives to our former customary procedures, in the art world as elsewhere. Questions, finally, that give us cause to think beyond what constituted the status quo until just a short time ago, both in terms of content and in pragmatic, organizational terms. Since last spring, for example, a new speculative search for alterity, for an unavoidable opening-up of discourse, can be observed in many... » read more
Net section
Cultivated Divergences
Deploying the body to engage with machines
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Emotionen und Technologie
Sabine Maria Schmidt
Relational Gaming
On the Social Aspect of Artistic Computer Games
Lorenz Caspar Ecker
On Track?
Paul Kolling’s film installation Break of Gauge
Raphael Dillhof
Give it All You’ve Got!
Some reflections on how the pandemic has changed the world of work
Martin Conrads
Contemporary Artist Writing
The Grid and the Gradient
Sam Lewitt
Vorschlag für einen Vortrag über Distanz
Nora Schultz
The Conference of the Animals
Conversation between the Curator Amy Zion and the Artist Ulrike Müller
Ulrike Müller, Amy Zion
Birmingham
Cameron Rowland
Pati Hill – Dreams Objects Moments
Maurin Dietrich
Wolfgang Paalen – The Writing Surrealist
Interview with the Art Historian Andreas Neufert
Gespräch mit dem Kunsthistoriker Andreas Neufert
Marion von Osten 1963–2020
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Artscribe
Radikale Passivität: Politiken des Fleisches
Michael Hauffen
Disturbance: Witch
Nina Prader
Mohamed Bourouissa – Brutal Family Roots
Christa Benzer
Hito Steyerl – I Will Survive
Teresa Retzer
Wo Kunst geschehen kann. Die frühen Jahre des CalArts
Ana Hoffner
YOUTH, GIRLS. Luo Yang Selected Works
Ada Karlbauer
Nach uns die Sintflut
Milena Dimitrova
Gelebt – Ingeborg Strobl
Gitti Huck
Edi Hila – Der Klang der Tuba
Susanne Neuburger
Curated_by 2020 – Hybrids
Valentinas Klimašauskas
Books
Sebastian Mühl:
Utopien der Gegenwartskunst
Christoph Chwatal
Werner Rappl (Hg.):
Guy Debord. Das filmische Gesamtwerk
Christian Höller
Eugene Thacker:
Im Staub dieses Planeten
Peter Kunitzky
Joe Sacco:
Wir gehören dem Land
Martin Reiterer