Issue 3/2006
Working Poor
It is at best on the margins that contemporary art takes poverty and social disadvantage as its themes. It is true that the wave of repoliticization over the last ten years has produced all sorts of socially engaged approaches. But these have tended to indulge in a kind of »welfare art« instead of developing analytic, artistic-cum-political categories. It is rare for social conditions as a whole, let alone the lifestyle of lower third of the working population, to come into view. The present issue enquires after the relevance of the category »working poor« - not just with regard to general social conditions of production, but in particular with reference to its cultural embodiments. There is much talk today of the »precarization« of all forms of social security. But what does this really mean for those affected, both within and outside ... » read more
Net section
»I will chocolate you«
The Internet in China and the West’s role
Vera Tollmann
Maps for the People
Contemporary Web projects on issues of cartography and territorial representation
Alessandro Ludovico
Reconstructing the Processor
Roland Seidel and Achim Stiermann’s »MAN OS 1 / extraordinateur«
Marina Grzinic
Great, If It Rocks As Well!
The productions of the Viennese electronic label MOSZ
Christina Nemec
Life in the Electro-Club
A German-Polish exchange project about glamour trash
Petra Erdmann
Archaic Looking Devices
The preservation project »40jahrevideokunst.de«
Christiane Fricke
Lost & Found (XII)
The rediscovery of the British artist and musician Linder
Christian Höller
Working Poor
The art of not becoming accustomed to anything
Precarious work in flexible capitalism
Klaus Ronneberger
Chto Delat - Angry Sandwich People or: In Praise of Dialectics
Slide show with audio track, 2005
Dmitri Vilensky and David Riff
Beyond Capital and State
Interview with the (post)operaistic theorist Paolo Virno
Klaus Ronneberger
A Shift in the Representation of the Worker
From Social Realism to “Soros Realism”
Ana Peraica
The new spirit of artistic capitalism
A conference in London examines the conditions currently shaping artistic criticism and social projects
Monika Vykoukal
Parrhesia, Poverty, Art
The act of parrhesia & the artistic act of problematising poverty
Süreyyya Evren
Happy Workers
Dario Azzellini’s and Oliver Ressler’s film »Five Factories« documents worker-controlled firms in Venezuela
Jens Kastner
»I won’t take a penny from Europe«
The »Déberlinisation« project by Senegalese artist Mansour Ciss
Dietrich Heissenbüttel
Utopian Urbanism 2.0 (for over-8s)
The Madrid immigrant quarter Lavapiés, the computer game »Border Games« by the Spanish group La Fiambrera Obrera and the limits of the possible
Krystian Woznicki
Detroit Industries: Jax Carwash, 2000
Annette Weisser/Ingo Vetter
Closed Communities
The programme »Radical Closure« at the Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Christian Höller
Animator of the Blue Line
The retrospective of Edward Krasinski at the Generali Foundation
Hedwig Saxenhuber
»Hey Guys...«
Jeroen de Rijke 1970-2006
Christopher Williams
Artscribe
»Sexy Myth
Images of the Self and the Other by Male and Female Artists«
Manuela Schöpp und Elena Zanichelli
Jo Spence
»Beyond the Perfect Image«
Ruth Sonderegger
»Periferic 7 – Focussing Iasi«
International Contemporary Art Biennale
Cosmin Costinas
Mario Navarro
»The New Ideal Line«
Cordula Daus
Clemens von Wedemeyer
Alexander Koch
»An American Family«
Hias Wrba
Jason Simon
»Vera«
Cynthia Chris
Daria Martin/Bernd Krauß
»A world of pleasures to win«
Tanja Widmann
»Blows into microphone: It is all right? Voice off mike: It’s all right. Pause. h.f«
Dietmar Schwärzler
»Kontakt
... from the Erste Bank-collection«
Ileana Pintilie
Dave Hullfish Bailey
»ELEVATOR«
Christa Benzer
»Canada Dreaming
Ideas and desires for the future from artists in America’s largest state«
Victoria Romei
Books
Fundación Rodríguez, Marina Grzinic, Jose Maria Mariátegui, Marcus Neustetter, Oliver Ressler, Hito Steyerl (Hg.):
Tester Book
Christa Benzer
Eva Illouz:
Gefühle in Zeiten des Kapitalismus
Thomas Edlinger
Thomas Ballhausen, Günter Krenn, Lydia Marinelli (Hg.):
Psyche im Kino
Judith Fischer
Georg Schmid:
Freud/Film oder das Kino als Kur
Judith Fischer
Karlien de Villiers:
Meine Mutter war eine schöne Frau
Martin Reiterer
Marjane Satrapi:
Sticheleien
Martin Reiterer
Michel Wieviorka:
Die Gewalt
Jens Kastner