Issue 2/2001
You are the World
»You are the world!« – a catchword that can be heard everywhere today. It is part of the rhetoric of the globally active consumer and culture industries, but also a central element in the debate about universal human rights. It is used by right-wing demagogues to construct national feelings, as well as by emancipative movements demanding democracy and justice on an increasingly international level. What concrete circumstances, what contradictory realities are concealed behind the contradictory promises of this phrase? It is a question being examined today by artists from many different fields: filmmakers from China and Hong Kong who scrutinize the radical changes taking place both in a rural and an urban context, Argentinean theater projects telling of the traumas of dictatorship and globalization, social theoreticians from Europe who refle... » read more
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Around the World? Around the World!
Global Electronica between Exploitation of Difference and Cultural Democratization
Christian Höller
Electronic Music from Argentina
Noise from a faraway island where no one wants to survive
Pablo Schanton
Tijuana Moods
The Mexican Nortec collective is redefining bounder-crossing
Enrique Lavin
You are the World
A double-edged sword
Interview with Immanuel Wallerstein
Workshop »Theory Unrealized« and »Imagining Democracy«
Economy and the Production of Subjectivity
The binding of affective powers in contemporary capitalism
Maurizio Lazzarato
Children of the »Missing«
A discussion with Gabriela Massuh about the new realism in recent Argentinean cinema and theatre productions
Katrin Klingan, Hortensia Völckers
»Death liberates the memory«
Interview with the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury
Sonja Mejcher
Blurred Boundaries, Impossible Home and Sexualized Modernity
On contemporary Chinese cinema
Bérénice Reynaud
Migration und Kino
Deniz Göktürk
Europe's Dream
A documentary film project
Hito Steyerl
Greetings from Vienna
The Viennese artist Ines Doujak and her works dealing with the visual ideology of racism, female sexuality, and minorities
Roger M. Buergel, Hedwig Saxenhuber
The Ararat of Subculture
»Rabiz,« the urban folklore of Armenia, developed a special and unconventional form in the 20th century
Ruben Arevshatyan
Irrigating the Zuyder Zee
Political resistance as a cultural achievement
Boris Buden
Rosa of Luxembourg
Sanja Ivekovic's counter-monument to the Luxembourg war memorial »Gëlle Fra«, and the debate it has caused
Georg Schöllhammer
Artscribe
A Congo Chronicle – A Man Of Mercy
Dierk Schmidt
Diagonale 2001
Herwig G. Höller
Videonale 9
Vera Tollmann
Joan Jonas: Performance Video Installation
Petra Löffler
Hybrid Dwellings
Marek Wasilewski
Das Gedächtnis der Kunst: Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart
Gerald Echterhoff
The Singh Twins: Breaking The Mould
Martin Reiterer
Give&Take
Jörn Ebner
Kaucyila Brooke: Burned…
Dorit Margreiter
Blondies + Brownies
Justin Hoffmann
Tamiko Thiel und Zara Houshmand: Beyond Manzanar
Michael Hauffen
Plattform 2_ Documenta 11
Boris Buden
Cerith Wyn Evans
Brigitte Huck
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Marina Grzinic
Sanja Ivekovic: Personal Cuts
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Books
Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Réjean Legault (Hg.):
Anxious Modernisms
Martin Beck
Peter D. Osborne:
Travelling Light
Jörn Glasenapp
Serge Daney:
Von der Welt ins Bild / Im Verborgenen
Dominik Kamalzadeh
Oliver Grau:
Virtuelle Kunst in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Christiane Wettig