Issue 2/2024
Cultural Wars
One long-lasting war in Ukraine, more than eight months of war in the Middle East – and we are talking about “culture wars”? Are we in any way up to the seriousness of the situation if we give the – comparatively mild – skirmishes in the field of art the central stage? And must not every cultural aspiration inevitably fade when we think of the relentless real violence, regardless of who perpetrates it, and its unimaginable victims? What can art achieve in this context, apart from contributing to a kind of immunizing self-construction: we enlightened citizens of the world here, barbaric despisers of civilization elsewhere? Can or should culture even use a word like “war” or “struggle” when their semantics are experiencing a horrendous real-world overload? There is nothing to gloss over here, and every artistic approach must currently ask it... » read more
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Nicht sichtbares Material
Christa Benzer
Der Default Tree am Ende der Zeit
Ada Karlbauer
Eher einschüchternd
Tilman Baumgärtel
Whatever You Throw at the Sea…
Fouad Asfour in conversation with interdisciplinary artist and researcher Zara Julius on the occasion of her exhibition at Weltmuseum Vienna
Agrofuturismus
Jochen Becker
Cultural Wars
Strategien des Ausladens in „schwierigen Zeiten“
Patricia Grzonka
Confronting Catastrophic Retrotopia
Fadi Toufiq
Welt ohne Utopiemühle
Total Refusal
Slime
Joshua Simon
Die eigene Betroffenheit richtig universalisieren
Katharina Hausladen
Kultur, gecancelt!
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Im Labyrinth der Empfindlichkeiten
Süreyyya Evren
Politik gehört allen
Sabine Weier
Künstlerische Solidarität
Pip Day zusammen mit Grace Lostia, Daniel Gasol und Rüzgâr Buşki
Nachruf Marie-Luise Angerer 1958–2024
Marietta Kesting
Artscribe
Hans-Christian Dany – Hunger
Julia Moritz
Jenna Bliss
Theresa Roessler
Curtis Cuffie’s New York City
Paul Buschnegg
Survival in the 21st Century
Martin Conrads
Lily Greenham – An Art of Living
Carmela Thiele
Carola Dertnig – Dancing through Lif
Annette Südbeck
Jürgen Baldiga – Wie die Hölle, so die Erde. Wo die Hölle, da die Erde.
Julius Pristauz
Lacan, die Ausstellung: Wenn Kunst auf Psychoanalyse trifft
Rahma Khazam
Joan Jonas – Good Night, Good Morning
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Maria Lassnig – Selbst als Kamera
Christian Egger
Books
Kimberly Juanita Brown:
Mortevivum
Max L. Feldman
Anuradha Vikram:
Use Me at Your Own Risk
Kathrin Heinrich
Leah Hunt-Hendrix/Astra Taylor:
Solidarity
Christian Höller
Matteo Pasquinelli:
The Eye of the Master
Peter Kunitzky