Issue 2/2003
Time for Action
»Time for Action!« For some time now, this catchcry has been heard in the field of the arts and culture with a new insistence. Whether it is a matter of the emergence of politicised approaches in the artistic field or of the transition from art to concrete forms of protest, these days the urge to take politically or socially motivated action is mingled in many places with issues of artistic representation and articulation. springerin 2/2003 takes its readers to the locations where such intermingling takes place, as well as examining the conditions under which the new interest in global injustices can be coupled with critical forms. For example, the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman analyses the large-scale changes brought about by the increasing division into a global elite and a growing class of the dispossessed and »unwilling tourists«. Jeff ... » read more
Net section
»Rock’n’Roll Will Never Die«
The music videos, live visuals and installations of the video artist Michaela Grill
Christa Benzer
The revolution WILL be broadcast – at least locally
On contemporary Italian local television projects
Alessandro Ludovico
»Information is Alive«
The 2003 Dutch Electronic Art Festival investigated issues of digital archiving and data retrieval
Gregor Jansen
War Games
Playing/waging digital war in the 21st century
Hias Wrba
Saddam International Airport/Baghdad International Airport
The airport as a symbol and elementary unit of (neo)-imperial world land development
Krystian Woznicki
Time for Action
Global China Shop (Part I)
An interview with the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman about social and cultural changes in the course of growing processes of globalisation
Christian Höller
Fixing Flows
The Cultural Dimensions of the New Imperialism
Jeff Derksen
Whose Territory?
»The Promise, The Land«: Jewish-Israeli artists examine the complexity and contradictory nature of projections onto the state, and the idea of the »Promised Land« of Israel
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Remapping the Region
A symposium on the occasion of the exhibition »The Promise, the Land«
Dorothee Richter
Mirror-Inverted Remembrance
The exhibition »Wonderyears« examines the »role of the Shoah and National Socialism in present-day Israeli society«
Hito Steyerl
Harem Fantasies and New Scheherezades
The harem has always been a place for the projection of Western ideals and visions about the Orient – an exhibition in Barcelona analyses the western-eastern reality of old and new representations of women
Christian Kravagna
Moscow Actionism: Origins and Applications
Herwig G. Höller
The Madman Is Sleeping with the Lunatic
The exhibition »Blut & Honig. Zukunft ist am Balkan« (»Blood & Honey. Future’s in the Balkans«) at the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg
Boris Buden
From »Black Wave« to Schengen Fortress
Zelimir Zilnik’s political films at the 2003 Diagonale festival
Herwig G. Höller
Engaging instead of Arranging
Július Koller's erratic work on the reconception of the aesthetic space 1960ff
Georg Schöllhammer
Dangerous it is not!
The Renewed Emergence of Activism in Art - "Hardcore" in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris
Martin Conrads
Winning Ground
Young French Art and the Split in the Symbolic Field
Jens Emil Sennewald
drive, stop, drive
»automatic«, »Parking«, »Rosa coeli« – three new films by Josef Dabernig
Georg Schöllhammer
Artscribe
bankett
Gislind Nabakowski
Anri Sala
Christa Benzer
»Beck’s Futures«
David Lillington
Pia Lanzinger: Play the Place – Bespiele den Raum
Sønke Gau
Ursula Hübner: In einem Bild
Ulrike Matzer
Marko Lulic: Ein amerikanisches Geschenk
Brigitte Huck
Melik Ohanian: White Wall Travelling
Monika Vykoukal
»Fate of Alien Modes«
Judith Fischer
»Wir müssen heute noch an Ihr Vorstellungsvermögen appellieren…«
Catrin Lorch
Hamburg-Kartierung / Territories
Jan Verwoert
Das »Moszkva tér«-Projekt
Katalin Timár
Books
Christian Reder & Simonetta Ferfolgia (Hg.):
Transfer Projekt Damaskus: urban orient-ation
Andreas Spiegl
Julie Ault (Hg.):
Alternative Art New York, 1965–1985
Noah Chasin
Misko Suvakovic:
Martek – The Fatal Figures of The Artist
Marina Grzinic
Einar Thorsteinn / Olafur Eliasson:
to the habitants of space in general and the spatial inhabitants in particular
Susanne Neuburger
Isabelle Graw:
Die bessere Hälfte.
Christa Benzer
Carol Willis (Hg.):
The Lower Manhattan Plan
Krystian Woznicki
Rudolf Maresch, Niels Werber (Hg.):
Raum – Wissen – Macht
Krystian Woznicki
Mike Davis:
Dead Cities: A Natural History
Krystian Woznicki
Marijan Molnar:
Actions and Ambiences
Marina Grzinic