Issue 3/2002
Cosmopolitics
For some time now, internationalist tendencies and an empowering form of regionalism have been joining to create new and productive formations in the art scene. Despite the much-cited locational specificity of art, many reflections on the globalized structures of production and power that have arisen in the past few years were not informed solely by ethics of the local or the interrogation of concrete metropolitan living environments. Indeed, these locally anchored, yet transnationally oriented approaches have been followed by a growing call for an emancipatory interpretation of »cosmopolitics,« a new concept of world citizenship. The post-Documenta issue of springerin investigates this call and its repercussions in today's globally extended culture. There is a central opposition reflected in the wide conceptual range of the term »cosmop... » read more
Net section
Alternative Cartographies
On the »mapping« projects »./logicaland« and »theyrule«, presented at the Ars Electronica 2002 in Linz
Matthias Dusini
The Label NetArt and Its Reality
The Turin biennial BIG chose the internet as host country
Villö Huszai
No Inviolable Angels
The »Hackmeeting 2002« this summer in Bologna
Alessandro Ludovico
The World in One's Pocket?
The Net project »VOPOS« by the Italian group 0100101110101101.org
Vera Tollmann
Of the Beauty of Operating Systems
Software art at the first-ever »READ_ME« festival in Moscow
Ieva Auzina
Kontra-Dictions and Counter-Worlds
The visual worlds of the Cologne media artist Rosa Barba
Petra Erdmann
Almost the Entire Frequency Spectrum
The ninth edition of the »sónar« festival in Barcelona
Christian Höller
Cosmopolitics
Africa in Motion
An interview with the post-colonialism theoretician Achille Mbembe
Christian Höller
Areas of Refuge
Cinema in the diaspora of Documenta11
Bert Rebhandl
Exposing a Situation
The works and retrospective of the South African photographer David Goldblatt
Dierk Schmidt
Failed Globalization
The American Empire's attempts to attain global supremacy
Neil Smith
Total War against the Absolute Enemy
September 11 and the New World Order
Klaus Ronneberger
United States of Emergency
Cosmopolitan reflections engendered by the project »Right2Fight«
Yates McKee
The World: Home to the Others
The cosmopolitism debate and »eastern European« art
Suzana Milevska
The Illusion of a Future
The re-interpretaton of the term »cosmopolitism« in the contemporary Bosnian art scene
Nebojsa Jovanovic
From Geo To Bio
The »expeditions« of the Armenian artist Karen Andreassian
Ruben Arevshatyan
Wunsch und Effizienz (german only)
In memoriam Pascale Jeannée (1976-2002)
Gerald Raunig
Artscribe
Roger Ballen: »Outland«
Martin Reiterer
blind dates - Berichte von der Nachrichtenfront
Daniel Pies & Jan Verwoert
Zurück zum Beton
Jan Verwoert
Atsuko Tanaka: Arbeiten aus der Gutai-Zeit
Sønke Gau
[un]gemalt
Georg Schöllhammer
I promise it’s political
Melanie Ohnemus
inside the sixties: g.p. 1.2.3.
Hedwig Saxenhuber
»Die Unvereinbarkeit von Standpunkten« & »continental drift«
Reinhard Braun
Clegg & Guttmann: »Negations of Strict Order: Anarchism, Cubism and Syncopated Music«
Martin Beck
5. Werkleitz Biennale: Zugewinngemeinschaft
Martin Conrads
Ines Doujak: »Vater Arsch«. Rirkrit Tiravanija
Monika Vykoukal
Hommage á Antonin Artaud
Alexandra Millner
Smarte Häuser – Vergangenes und Zukünftiges
Calin Dan
ca. 1.500.000.000 Bilder
Jochen Becker
Books
Douglas Crimp:
Melancholia and Moralism
Noah Chasin
Rafael Horzon:
Der Dritte Weg
Hans-Christian Dany
Martina Löw:
Raumsoziologie
Marc Ries