Issue 2/2021
Things That Divide Us
Divisions, here, there and everywhere. Yet at the same time a desire to establish new forms of solidarity and strike a balance within society. The defining political/cultural scenario of recent years could be defined in these terms and has become still more acute in the light of the pandemic. On the one hand, the undeniable observation that differences of all kinds have tended to become more pronounced due to the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic. On the other hand, calls have emerged, especially on the part of artists and intellectuals, to focus more on what unites us and what we share as aspects that should cut across all class or other identities. Yet this kind of juxtaposition between separation and reconciliation is not as simple as it first appears. Often, too much is projected into society’s alleged polarisation; too much is... » read more
Net section
The Future is Written Now
About transmediale 2021 – For Refusal
Sabine Weier
Of Virtual Paradise Gardens and Productive Idleness
About the Viennese Media Art Festival CIVA
Barbara Seyerl
Emigration into Virtual Space
About the Exhibition Beyond States at the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Helena Schmidt
Emigration in den virtuellen Raum
Roland Schöny
Cosmic Vibration
SAVVY Berlin and MaerzMusik Commemorate Electronic Pioneer and Ethnomusicologist Halim El-Dabh
Christian Höller
Planet Love – Über Klimafürsorge, biologische Vielfalt und Wurzelsysteme
Denise Helene Sumi
Things That Divide Us
The Enthroned Basalt Goddess
The Idiosyncrasy and Appropriability of Objects
Roger M. Buergel und Sophia Prinz
The Organs of the Beast
Or: How Can the Metabolic Function of Today’s Institutions be Rethought?
Clémentine Deliss
About Pavilion Enthusiast – Balcony by the ZIP Group
Marianna Kruchinski
Return of the Rockets.
For a Radical Imagination in the Age of Hypersonic Rockets
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Undertow
Image Gallery
Aleksei Taruts und Serhiy Klymko
Roots and Stems
About Jura Shust’s Installation NEOPHYTE II: Extraction of Apotropaic (2021)
Anna Karpenko
Art doesn’t have to, but it can Change Society
About the Projects of Sergey Shabohin
Olga Shparaga
Forest, Frst, t like teamwork
Image Gallery
Susanne Kriemann
The present is like the smashed phone screen of an immigrant
Damir Arsenijević
Iulia Toma – #orientalswelcome
Image Gallery; Text: Raluca Voinea
Raluca Voinea
Jumping Over the Fire
About Invented Traditions and Objects of Folk Customs
Celine Wawruschka
Romana Scheffknecht 1952–2021
Susanne Neuburger
Artscribe
Lydia Ourahmane – Barzakh
Nika Timashkova
Inhale!
Flóra Gadó
Europa: Antike Zukunft
Günther Holler-Schuster
Metahaven – Chaos Theory
Kathrin Heinrich
Transformation und Wiederkehr. Radikale Nationalismen im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Milena Dimitrova
Trilogía marroquí 1950–2020
María Virginia Jaua
Phyllida Barlow – frontier
Hildegund Amanshauser
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
Brianna Harlan
Özgür Kar – Macabre
Ada Karlbauer
Sharif Baruwa – Hallo Austria, hallo Vienna
Franz Thalmair
Books
Kathi Hofer:
„Grandma“ Prisbrey’s Bottle Village
Kathrin Heinrich
Cornelia Sollfrank/Felix Stalder/Shusha Niederberger (Hg.):
Aesthetics of the Commons
Jens Kastner
Francis Seeck/Brigitte Theißl (Hg.) UND Betina Aumair/Brigitte Theißl:
Solidarisch gegen Klassismus UND Klassenreise
Susanne Lummerding
Tom Holert:
Knowledge Beside Itself
Johanna Schaffer